ICP’s onsite One-Year Certificate Program priority deadline for admission and merit-based scholarships has been extended to March 15, 2026. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn what makes a strong application to ICP’s onsite One-Year Certificate Programs, including:Creative PracticesDocumentary Practice and Visual JournalismIn this session, you will receive an overview of key admission deadlines, the academic timeline, program structure, tuition, and scholarship opportunities. You’ll also gain insight into what the Admissions Committee looks for in successful applicants and have the chance to ask questions directly to the Admissions Team.Apply by March 15, 2026 for priority admission and scholarship consideration.ICP’s onsite One-Year Certificate Programs 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 Gabrielle Ravet

Join us at ICP as renowned photographer Ryudai Takano is joined in conversation by art historian Emiko Inoue and artist Elle Pérez. Takano, Inoue, and Pérez will discuss queer representation beyond the body, the republication of Takano’s seminal photobook In My Room (2005) as a new edition titled In My Room Revisited (2026), as well as their recent exhibition Takano Ryudai: kasubaba Living through the ordinary, recently on view at Hiroshima MOCA and the Tokyo Museum of Photographic Art. Throughout his thirty-year career as a photographer, Ryudai Takano has explored a wide range of themes, from gender and sexuality to the politics of Tokyo’s urban landscapes, and more recently, the visual and conceptual possibilities of shadows.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. Arrive early to see our current exhibitions Eugene Atget: The Making of a Reputation, Latitudes: Nuits Balnéaires and François-Xavier Gbré, and HARD COPY NEW YORK, on view through May 4, 2026.This program is supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan. Ryudai Takano, 2015.10.28.#a28 from the series kasubaba 2, 2015 ©︎ Ryudai Takano Courtesy of Yumiko Chiba Associates About the SpeakersRyudai Takano has been engaged in his artistic practice on the theme of sexuality since 1994, in 2005 winning the Kimura Ihei Award for In My Room, a collection of photographs that attempt to give visual expression to the ambiguities that lie in the space between the dichotomies of man or woman, homosexual or heterosexual. Since then, he has produced a number of works viewing the “down there” matter of sexual desire in the context of its relationship to the likes of identity and social norms, including How to contact a man, which explores the theme of sexuality in pornographic format; and With me, whose unguarded expressions of sexuality led to trouble with the police. In addition, Takano has produced a series that questions the notion of a hierarchy of value in visual representation, including the Reclining Woo-Man series of “unmarketable” body images; and Kasubaba, which captures very familiar yet neglected parts of the distinctively Japanese urban landscape. Since the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of 2011, Takano has been engaged in various projects on the theme of shadows. In 2021, Takano had his first museum solo exhibition TAKANO RYUDAI: DAILY PHOTOGRAPHS 1999-2021, at the National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan. Awarded The 72nd Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan in 2021, and the 38th Higashikawa Awards’ Domestic Photographer Award in 2022. In 2025, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography held Takano’s solo exhibition Takano Ryudai: kasubaba Living through the ordinary as the first of a series of exhibitions commemorating its 30th anniversary.Elle Pérez is an artist from the Bronx, New York, who lives and works in New York City. Pérez primarily works in photography and moving image, depicting intimate moments, emotional exchanges, and visceral details within their portraits, landscapes, and films. Recent solo exhibitions include “The World is Always Again Beginning, History with the Present,” The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York (2025); “guabancex,” 47 Canal, New York (2023); “Devotions,” Baltimore Museum of Art, MD (2023); “Devotions,” Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2021); “from sun to sun,” Public Art Fund, New York (2019) and “Diablo,” MoMA PS1, New York (2018). They participated in the 2022 Venice Biennale, the 2022 New England Triennial, and the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Recent group exhibitions include Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (2025); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2023); Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX (2022); Renaissance Society, Chicago (2020); Barbican Centre, London (2020); and Brooklyn Museum, New York (2019), among others. Their work is held in public collections at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, CA; Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, among others. They will be publishing a new book with Aperture to be released in Fall 2026.Emiko Inoue (she/they) is an art historian based in Tokyo, specializing in modern and contemporary art, as well as feminist and queer theory. She received the Feminist Institute Research Award for her master’s thesis at Hunter College, CUNY, where she focused on Mitsuko Tabe, a Japanese woman artist active in the 1960s. Currently, she is interested in the relationship between the “formative” years of queer theory in 1990s Japan and its ambiguous modes of representation.Header Image: Ryudai Takano, Wearing a red leather coat, 2002 ©︎ Ryudai Takano Courtesy of Yumiko Chiba Associates

This event is free with museum admission. No RSVP required for ICP members.Join us for weekly guided walking tours of the exhibitions: Eugène Atget: The Making of a Reputation, HARD COPY NEW YORK and Latitudes: Nuits Balnéaires and François-Xavier Gbré. About the ExhibitionsEugène Atget: The Making of a Reputation While Atget's work has been celebrated worldwide for documenting the lost Paris, this exhibition marks the first deep dive into how his reputation was built, and the pivotal role of Berenice Abbott, the photographer who championed his legacy.HARD COPY NEW YORK Exploring the contemporary use of photocopied images through works by industry-leading photographers including Stephen Shore, Daniel Arnold, Collier Schorr, Jerry Hsu, and others.Latitudes: Nuits Balnéaires and François-Xavier Gbré How does landscape photography reveal more than geographic facts? Latitudes brings together work by Nuits Balnéaires and François-Xavier Gbré that pushes beyond lanscape photography's traditional boundaries into evoking euphoric sensations, challenging colonial historical narratives, and expanding the scope of immersion. Program Format/Accessibility InformationThis is a walking tour of the gallery and is included with admission; no seating is provided. For accessibility questions or requests, please email [email protected]. Image by Pasinee Pramunwong

Cameras and Coffee is held at ICP the second Saturday of each month. The event is free to attend with RSVP.Connect with ICP's community during our monthly Cameras and Coffee social meet-up for photographers, collectors, and camera enthusiasts! During the event, grab freshly brewed coffee by Deadbeat Club and pastries, available for purchase in the ICP café. This session of Cameras and Coffee is in collaboration with Art+Feminism for Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, a communal updating of Wikipedia entries on subjects related to gender, photography, art, and feminism, culling from ICP’s Collections and alumni database. Help us improve the representation of women and non-binary artists and photographers on Wikipedia; No Wikipedia editing or art history experience required. Bring your laptop, power cord and ideas for entries that need update or creation. For the editing-averse, we urge you to stop by to show your support.Please create a Wikipedia account before the event. Image by Scott Rudd

This event is free with museum admission. No RSVP required for ICP members.Join us for weekly guided walking tours of the exhibitions: Eugène Atget: The Making of a Reputation, HARD COPY NEW YORK and Latitudes: Nuits Balnéaires and François-Xavier Gbré. About the ExhibitionsEugène Atget: The Making of a Reputation While Atget's work has been celebrated worldwide for documenting the lost Paris, this exhibition marks the first deep dive into how his reputation was built, and the pivotal role of Berenice Abbott, the photographer who championed his legacy.HARD COPY NEW YORK Exploring the contemporary use of photocopied images through works by industry-leading photographers including Stephen Shore, Daniel Arnold, Collier Schorr, Jerry Hsu, and others.Latitudes: Nuits Balnéaires and François-Xavier Gbré How does landscape photography reveal more than geographic facts? Latitudes brings together work by Nuits Balnéaires and François-Xavier Gbré that pushes beyond lanscape photography's traditional boundaries into evoking euphoric sensations, challenging colonial historical narratives, and expanding the scope of immersion. Program Format/Accessibility InformationThis is a walking tour of the gallery and is included with admission; no seating is provided. For accessibility questions or requests, please email [email protected]. Image by Pasinee Pramunwong

Photographer Kennedi Carter will be joined by artist and creative director Adraint Khadafhi Bereal for the next conversation in the Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer lecture series this spring. Carter will discuss the throughlines of intracommunal safety and Black interiority across the trajectory of her career followed by a discussion with Bereal.This program is being offered both in person at ICP, located on NYC's Lower East Side, and online. Current ICP students and faculty of the One-Year Certificate programs are automatically enrolled and invited to attend all lectures.Past speakers of the Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Lecture series include: JEB, Philip Cheung, Edwaard Burtynsky, Naima Green, David Alekhuogie, Keisha Scarville, Johnny Miller, and Erin Schaff.Image by Kennedi CarterAbout the SeriesICP is thrilled to honor Naomi Rosenblum’s contribution to the field and to further her life’s work through this lecture series. Naomi Rosenblum was one of the leading photography historians of her generation and the author of A World History of Photography and A History of Women Photographers. The 2025-2026 Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series is made possible through generous support from the Rosenblum Family. About the SpeakersKennedi Carter (b. 1998), is a digital media based artist, born in Charlottesville, Virginia and raised in Durham, North Carolina. Through archiving & photography, she aims to highlight the aesthetics & sociopolitical aspects of Black life as well as the overlooked beauties of the Black experience: skin, texture, trauma, pleasure, love and community. Her work aims to reinvent notions of creativity and confidence in the realm of Blackness. Her work has been featured in the RISD Museum (2022), the Nasher Museum of art at Duke (2024), Saatchi Gallery (2024), the Harwood Museum of Art (2022), British Vogue Magazine (2020), & Atmos Magazine (2025). Adraint Khadafhi Bereal (b. 1998) is an artist from Waco, Texas, based in New York. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Design and Creative Technologies, Bereal’s work untangles the nuances of American culture by interrogating and provoking truth to reveal itself. Working across photography, design, and publishing, he examines how systems of representation shape identity. His debut monograph, The Black Yearbook, expanded a student project into a national portrait of Black collegiate life, revealing the emotional and aesthetic vocabularies of a generation navigating visibility and belonging.Bereal’s work is held in the permanent collection of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and has been exhibited nationally. His upcoming solo exhibition at the Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas at Austin marks a return to the institution where his practice first took root.Header image by Kennedi Carter

This event is free with museum admission. No RSVP required for ICP members.Join us for weekly guided walking tours of the exhibitions: Eugène Atget: The Making of a Reputation, HARD COPY NEW YORK and Latitudes: Nuits Balnéaires and François-Xavier Gbré. About the ExhibitionsEugène Atget: The Making of a Reputation While Atget's work has been celebrated worldwide for documenting the lost Paris, this exhibition marks the first deep dive into how his reputation was built, and the pivotal role of Berenice Abbott, the photographer who championed his legacy.HARD COPY NEW YORK Exploring the contemporary use of photocopied images through works by industry-leading photographers including Stephen Shore, Daniel Arnold, Collier Schorr, Jerry Hsu, and others.Latitudes: Nuits Balnéaires and François-Xavier Gbré How does landscape photography reveal more than geographic facts? Latitudes brings together work by Nuits Balnéaires and François-Xavier Gbré that pushes beyond lanscape photography's traditional boundaries into evoking euphoric sensations, challenging colonial historical narratives, and expanding the scope of immersion. Program Format/Accessibility InformationThis is a walking tour of the gallery and is included with admission; no seating is provided. For accessibility questions or requests, please email [email protected]. Image by Pasinee Pramunwong