Join us at ICP as educator Ericka Hart leads a conversation on how the intersection of photography and reproductive justice operates in our everyday lives. Hart will be joined by Sevonna Brown, Shawnee Benton Gibson, and Naima Green, whose exhibition, Instead, I spin fantasies, is on view at ICP through January 12.This program is being offered both in person at ICP, located on NYC's Lower East Side, and online. Tickets to attend the conversation in person are $5 and include access to ICP’s galleries.About the SpeakersEricka Hart (pronouns: she/they) is a black queer femme activist, writer, highly acclaimed speaker and award-winning sexuality educator with a Master’s of Education in Human Sexuality from Widener University. Ericka’s work broke ground when she went topless showing her double mastectomy scars in public in 2016. Since then, she has been in demand at colleges and universities across the country, featured in countless digital and print publications like Vogue, Washington Post, Allure, Harper’s Bazaar, VICE, PAPER Mag, BBC News, Cosmopolitan, Vanity Fair, W Magazine, Glamour, Elle, and Essence. Ericka’s voice is rooted in leading edge thought around human sexual expression as inextricable to overall human health and its intersections with race, gender, chronic illness and disability. Both radical and relatable, she continues to push well beyond the threshold of sex positivity. Ericka Hart has taught sexuality education for elementary aged youth to adults across New York City for over 10 years, including for 4 years at Columbia University’s School of Social work and the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College. They are currently running their own sex ed training program called Sex Ed as Resistance, a bratty switchy Sagittarius service bottom and misses Whitney more than you. Sevonna Brown is a dynamic force in maternal and child health, renowned for a career devoted to ending preventable maternal mortality and morbidity. As the Founder and CEO of Sanctuary for Integrative Medicine, she creates transformative, culturally responsive programs that support mothers, families, and communities through holistic, evidence-based care. A Principal Investigator for the NIH, Sevonna leads groundbreaking research aimed at eliminating disparities in maternal and infant outcomes, translating science into actionable strategies that save lives. Her work spans the globe, from cities in the U.S. to communities across Africa, where she collaborates with local leaders to implement programs that empower families and strengthen reproductive justice and health systems. Sevonna has partnered with organizations including Merck for Mothers, Aetna, CVS, and UN initiatives, and her advocacy has been featured in documentaries like The Business of Birth Control and Aftershock. She has authored influential pieces in TIME Magazine, Ebony, and Rewire News, bringing attention to systemic inequities and innovative solutions in reproductive health. A Gates Millennium Scholar and NGen 2023 Fellow, Sevonna’s work is both visionary and actionable. She has served hundreds of families and trained countless health professionals to deliver culturally informed care. Her mission: to dismantle medical injustice, champion maternal and child health, and cultivate a world where every mother and infant can thrive. For more about Sevonna and her work, visit Sanctuary for Integrative Medicine. Shawnee Benton Gibson, LMSW / FLDC is the CEO of Spirit of A Woman (S.O.W.) Leadership Development Institute and the Co-Founder of the ARIAH Foundation. She has over 34 years of administrative, clinical and executive coaching experience and expertise in women’s leadership, youth development, reproductive justice, racial equity, individual, couples, family and group counseling, trauma and bereavement. These skills, combined with her spiritual and artistic gifts, allow Shawnee to guide individuals as they navigate the various stages and phases of their lives. Shawnee employs a holistic, cultural and spiritual approach to her work and utilizes a social justice lens as a foundational principle for her service to community. Her primary healing tools consist of spiritual counseling, vision coaching, psychodrama, sociometry, sacred rituals, energy work, the performing arts and storytelling as mediums to ignite transformation and initiate catharsis. Shawnee is the subject of the Emmy nominated documentary “Aftershock”. The film follows her and her family as they fight for reproductive justice in the wake of the tragic and preventable death of Shawnee’s eldest daughter, Shamony Makeba Gibson, due to a birth related pulmonary embolism. According to Shawnee, “activism is a labor of love and liberation" Naima Green is an artist and educator who pictures individuals and communities to document their vibrant relationships to place and pleasure. She engages with various photographic forms, sound, and experimental film. Throughout her collaborative practice, Green accesses and prioritizes the nature of intimacy, safety, and self-recognition. Often working in lush and watery environments, she presents windows into multidimensional experiences of seawater and its pathways: beauty, buoyancy, overwhelm, and submersion. Oral and written histories are critical to her process; by synthesizing archival research with outreach and conversation with current sitters, she frames picture-making as a continuum and her still images as kinetic, living histories. Naima Green, humming with promise, 2024 © Naima Green

Join us on Saturday, January 10, 2026, from 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM for a morning filled with discovery and connection. You’ll get rare behind-the-scenes access to our darkroom and library, including a chance to make your own Cyanotype to take home.Mingle with fellow members over a light breakfast and learn more about everything that is available to you at ICP. Space is limited, so reserve your spot early and make this gathering part of your New Year tradition!RSVP at [email protected].

Connect with ICP's community during our monthly Cameras and Coffee social meet-up for photographers, collectors, and camera enthusiasts! During the event, grab a Deadbeat Club coffee and pastries, available in the ICP café.This session of Cameras & Coffee is hosted by Nice Film Club—a full-service film lab and community platform dedicated to empowering film photographers.Drop your favorite photo in this folder to receive complimentary 4x6 prints from Nice Film Club for sharing and connecting with fellow Cameras & Coffee enthusiasts, then afterwards at 1 PM join the Nice Film Club photowalk through the Lower East Side.Cameras and Coffee is held at ICP the second Saturday of each month. The event is free to attend with RSVP. About Nice Film Club Nice Film Club is here to empower the film photography community through modern film photography services. Born in Brooklyn, NY out of a love for those beloved imperfections found on every roll of film. At Nice, we're determined to serve film photographers through high quality photo lab services and a modern web experience. Our service is made for you and we'reexcited to grow our offering with you alongside us. You can drop off your film orders directly at the International Center of Photography (ICP) for development and scanning services by Nice Film Club. Image by Scott Rudd

This event is free with museum admission.Join us for a guided walking tour of the exhibitions Graciela Iturbide: Serious Play, Naima Green: Instead, I spin fantasies, and Sergio Larrain: Wanderings, led by a museum educator. About the ExhibitionsGraciela Iturbide: Serious PlayThe first ever retrospective of Iturbide’s work in New York City. This landmark exhibition, organized in collaboration with Fundación MAPFRE and curated by Carlos Gollonet, Chief Curator of Photography at Fundación MAPFRE, features nearly 200 photographs spanning five decades of her groundbreaking career.Iturbide learned photography under renowned Mexican modernist Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Throughout her career, Iturbide traveled extensively throughout Mexico–and beyond–turning her attention to communal life, indigenous communities, and the interactions between nature and culture.Naima Green: Instead, I spin fantasiesThe exhibition grapples with the concept of pregnancy through constructed self-portraits, landscapes and still-lifes—blurring the line between documentary and performance. Green probes the conventional expectations and representational tropes of motherhood, while also creating an expanded space for considering the experience of pregnancy in America.Curated by Guest Curator Elisabeth Sherman, Instead, I spin fantasies brings together dozens of new works, including photographs printed using the historical technologies of albumen and lumen printing processes, along with a site-specific vinyl installation that utilizes the architecture of ICP’s third floor galleries.Sergio Larrain: WanderingsAn exhibition consisting of prints drawn entirely from the Magnum Photos archive. Curated by Agnès Sire, former Director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, the exhibition primarily highlights the work Larrain made during the first twenty years of his career, in cities such as Valparaíso, Santiago, Paris and London.Wanderings provides a new perspective on Larrain’s inventive and humanist photography that for decades has remained little seen and seldom exhibited, looking at both the material and spiritual drama of rural and urban life while also charting the subtle evolution of Larrain’s style. Program Format/Accessibility InformationThis is a walking tour of the gallery; no seating is provided. For accessibility questions or requests, please email [email protected]. Image © Gabrielle Ravet

Este evento es gratuito con la entrada al museo.Acompáñanos a una visita guiada de las exhibiciones “Graciela Iturbide: Juego Serio”, “Naima Green: Prefiero inventar fantasías” y “Sergio Larrain: Andanzas” Imagen © Gabrielle Ravet

This event is free with museum admission.Join us at ICP for the final opportunity to see our Fall 2025 exhibitions before they close. Spanning continents, generations, and approaches, these shows invite reflection on photography’s enduring ability to document, question, and inspire.About the ExhibitionsGraciela Iturbide: Serious PlayOrganized with Fundación MAPFRE and curated by Carlos Gollonet, this is the first major New York retrospective of the celebrated Mexican photographer. Featuring nearly 200 works spanning five decades, Serious Play illuminates Iturbide’s profound engagement with indigenous communities, ritual, and the poetic contradictions of everyday life.Naima Green: Instead, I spin fantasiesCurated by Elisabeth Sherman, this bold new series reimagines pregnancy through staged self-portraits, still lifes, and landscapes that blur fact and fiction. Green challenges familiar tropes of motherhood while expanding the visual language around reproductive experience in America.Sergio Larrain: WanderingsA landmark exhibition featuring works exclusively from the Magnum Photos archive, curated by Agnès Sire. Wanderings highlights two decades of Larrain’s inventive and humanist photography across Valparaíso, Santiago, Paris, and London, offering a rare look at his evolving style and elusive legacy. Image credit: ©Scott Rudd for ICP

Gain insight into what we look for in a successful application to ICP’s onsite One-Year Certificate Programs. The programs include:Creative PracticesDocumentary Practice and Visual JournalismIn this session, you’ll get an overview of the key admission dates, academic timeline, program structure, tuition and scholarship opportunities, and what makes a strong application. You’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions directly to the Admissions Team.Applications for Fall 2026 are open!Apply by March 1, 2026 for priority consideration and merit-based scholarship opportunities.ICP’s On-Site One-Year Certificate Programs will begin in mid-August 2026 at our New York City campus.About the Event Format This is an online event held via Zoom. Please register in advance for this free event. ZOOM LINK HereIf you have questions about the event, please contact [email protected] by Matthew Septimus