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84 Ludlow Entrance

Photography Lives Here

The International Center of Photography is the world’s leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture. Through exhibitions, education programs, community outreach, and public programs, ICP offers an open forum for dialogue about the power of the image, and is a gathering place for the photography community to meet, exchange ideas, and support one another.

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Dayanita Singh

ICP Alum & Infinity Award Winner
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Ian Lewandowski

Ian Lewandowski

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Jon Henry

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Keisha Scarville

ICP Alum and Faculty
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Upcoming Events

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Paris Photo: ICP in Paris
Join ICP CEO Bob Jeffrey and Creative Director David Campany for an unforgettable four-day trip to Paris during Paris Photo.Trip Highlights:Welcome breakfastUnlimited access to the fair, including guided tours led by ICP’s curatorExclusive visit to Louis Stettner’s studioPrivate viewing of the renowned collection of Damien and Florence BachelotArtist-led tour with Luc Delahaye of his major monographic exhibition at The Jeu de PaumeCocktail hour with ICP Alumni and more!This trip is exclusively for ICP Trustees, Committee Members, and Visionary Circle Members (and above). An updated itinerary will be shared periodically. Participation Fee: $750 (covers all ICP-organized activities)
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Admissions Team Q&A—Onsite One-Year Certificate Programs
Discover everything you need to know about our Onsite One-Year Certificate Program! Join our Admissions Team virtually to explore key admission dates, the academic timeline, program structure, tuition and scholarship opportunities, and learn what makes a successful application.Applications for Fall 2026 are now 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
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Naima Green, humming with promise, 2024 © Naima Green
Visualizing Reproductive Justice with Ericka Hart
Join ICP online 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, Racha Tahani Queen Lawler, and Naima Green, whose exhibition, Instead, I spin fantasies, is on view at ICP through January 12. 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.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
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"On-Campus"—Meet Program Chairs & Take a School Tour
Visit ICP and meet our program chairs, Darin Mickey, Creative Practices Chair, and Karen Marshall, Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism Chair, to learn about the Onsite One-Year Certificate Program.Explore the program structure, curriculum highlights, faculty, student life, admissions process, our vibrant community, and more. You’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions directly to the program chairs and the Admissions team.At the end of the info session, enjoy a campus tour of the International Center of Photography’s Lower East Side facilities, including studios, state-of-the-art labs and darkrooms, the equipment room, and more. You can ask questions about the facilities and learn what it’s like to be an ICP student.All attendees will receive a complimentary museum ticket to view the current exhibition at the ICP Museum prior to the info session. For questions about the event, contact [email protected] for Fall 2026 are now 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 onsite event held at the ICP Library. Please register in advance for this free event. If you have questions about the event, please contact [email protected] by Sara Konradi
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Fall 2025 Exhibitions Tour
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
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Family Art Hour: with C.J. Chueca
Explore ICP's Fall exhibitions during this hands-on all ages family workshop led by educator Carlos Nunez and guest artist C.J. Chueca. Discover new photographic techniques and how they connect with notions of family and community during an introductory tour of the shows, then join the hands-on activity.All ages 4 and up are welcome.Parents and guardians must remain with their children during the activity.
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Visita Guiada Exhibiciones (Español)
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

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ICP's museum, school, bookstore, and café are located at 84 Ludlowm St. in New York's historic Lower East Side. 

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Members are the heart of ICP's community. Beyond their involvement in a robust network of imagemakers and image appreciators, ICP's members receive complimentary tickets to all exhibitions, reduced tuition for Open Education courses, invitations to members-only events, and much more.