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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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Upcoming Events

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Image by Pasinee Pramunwong, Winter 2026 Exhibitions Tour.
Winter 2026 Exhibitions Tour (January 30)
This event is free with museum admission.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
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Book Launch—Espe Pons "Maybe Never Again”
Join us for a special book signing during the New York City launch of artist Espe Pons’s Maybe Never Again, a new publication exploring the role of foreign women in the anti-fascist struggle during the Spanish Civil War. Through documentation of the landscapes where they worked, their families, and personal belongings, the publication preserves their memory.The book signing will be accompanied by Jo Labanyi, Professor Emerita from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University (NYU), and Nancy Wallach, an Executive Board Member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) and daughter of Hy Wallach, a veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.This program is free to attend. Maybe Never Again is available to purchase in the ICP shop. About the BookMaybe Never Again is a photobook about foreign women who joined the Republican struggle against fascism during the Spanish Civil War. Espe Pons photographs the places where they worked—Brunete, Albacete, Huete, and Mataró—showing empty landscapes and ruins that evoke their absence. The project restores visibility to doctors, nurses, photographers, journalists, militiamen and thinkers who arrived as volunteers from abroad: Elzbieta Bekier, Anni Brunner, Hedwig Buss-Diener, Maria Gothelf Melchior, Nan Green, Liesel Hidden-Mottek, Kate Kirstein, May Levine, Dora Lorska, Fredericka Martin, Tina Modotti, Margarita Nelken Mansberger, Betty Rosenfeld, Jeanne Roussant, Rachel Schwartzman, Esther Silverstein Blanc, Thora Silverthorne, Gerda Taro, Clara Thalmann, Lillian Urmston and Simone Weil.The author locates their families and constructs contemporary portraits, as well as documenting personal objects that preserve their memory. The book includes 21 biographies written by relatives and historians about the women featured. Six specialists contribute texts that provide historical and cultural context for the Spanish Civil War. It is complemented by archival photographs by authors such as Gerda Taro, Edward Weston, Kati Horna, and Agustí Centelles. With 221 pages, the photobook is self-published with the support of various cultural and historical memory institutions.Sobre el Libro Maybe Never Again es un fotolibro sobre mujeres extranjeras que se unieron a la lucha republicana contra el fascismo durante la Guerra Civil Española. Espe Pons fotografía los lugares donde trabajaron -Brunete, Albacete, Huete o Mataró- mostrando paisajes vacíos y ruinas que evocan su ausencia. El proyecto devuelve visibilidad a médicas, enfermeras, fotógrafas, periodistas, milicianas y pensadoras llegadas como voluntarias del extranjero: Elzbieta Bekier, Anni Brunner, Hedwig Buss-Diener, Maria Gothelf Melchior, Nan Green, Liesel Hidden-Mottek, Kate Kirstein, May Levine, Dora Lorska, Fredericka Martin, Tina Modotti, Margarita Nelken Mansberger, Betty Rosenfeld, Jeanne Roussant, Rachel Schwartzman, Esther Silverstein Blanc, Thora Silverthorne, Gerda Taro, Clara Thalmann, Lillian Urmston y Simone Weil.La autora localiza a sus familias y construye retratos actuales, además de documentar objetos personales que conservan su memoria. El libro incluye las 21 biografías escritas por familiares e historiadores sobre las mujeres protagonistas. Seis especialistas aportan textos que contextualizan histórica y culturalmente la Guerra Civil Española. Se complementa con fotografías de archivo de autores como Gerda Taro, Edward Weston, Kati Horna o Agustí Centelles. Con 221 páginas, el fotolibro es una autoedición apoyada por diversas instituciones culturales y de memoria histórica. About the SpeakersEspe Pons (Barcelona, 1973) is a research artist who works with photography, focusing on memory and landscape, developing a practice centered on historical memory. In 2019, she was selected, along with Jordi Jové, for an artist residency program at the Three Shadows Center for Photographic Art in Beijing, China. Her work has been exhibited in various venues, including the University of Minnesota and the Centro de la Imafen in Mexico City. She is currently exhibiting at the Ex Convento del Carmen Museum in Guadalajara, Mexico with exhibition Para no olvidar and Mirrors of Oblivion at the Cervantes Institute in Chicago. She has published six photobooks, Under the Light of the Sea, Tierra, Flucht, Portraits, and her latest, Maybe Never Again. Image by: Rodrigo S.Moulinié Header Image by: Espe Pons
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ICP Photobook Club: Deirdre Donohue
ICP Photobook Club: Curator's Reading Room
Explore photobooks from the ICP Library and connect with fellow photobook enthusiasts at ICP's Photobook Club. Each month, browse hand-picked selections from special guests and ICP community members.This session of Photobook Club is inspired by ICP’s exhibitions: Eugène Atget: The Making of a Reputation, HARD COPY NEW YORK, and Latitudes: Nuits Balnéaires and François-Xavier Gbré opening January 29, 2026. Some of the selections include the early edition of Changing New York by Berenice Abbott and her life-long partner Elizabeth McCausland, Andy Warhol’s artist book created with the assistance of Stephen Shore, and the latest launches from Nuits Balnéaires and François-Xavier Gbré.The Photobook Club takes place in the ICP library on the last Saturday of each month. This event is free to attend with RSVP. About ICP Library ICP’s reading library contains over 20,000 books and periodicals. The reading room is currently open to the public during ICP’s monthly Photobook Club, to researchers by appointment, and to members during Library Member Hours.Learn more about ICP’s Library here. Image by Pasinee Pramunwong
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Image by Pasinee Pramunwong, Winter 2026 Exhibitions Tour.
Winter 2026 Exhibitions Tour (January 31)
This event is free with museum admission.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
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Documentary Practices Program Chair's Info Session—Onsite One-Year Certificate Program
Join Karen Marshall, Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism Chair to learn about ICP's onsite One-Year Certificate Program. Karen will discuss program structure, curriculum highlights, faculty, student life, the admissions process, our vibrant community, and more.You’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions directly to Karen Marshall, the Program Chair, and 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 Maria Carolina Herrera Postigo (DOC '25)
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Book Event—Bruce Gilden: “8 Days in Napoli”
Join us at ICP for a conversation with Bruce Gilden around the release of his latest monograph, 8 Days in Napoli. Gilden will be joined in conversation by Michael Foley, Director at Leica Gallery, followed by a signing in the ICP Shop.Tickets to attend the conversation in person are $5. 8 Days in Napoli is available to purchase in the ICP shop.About the BookA look at the people of the Italian city of Napoli through the lens of renowned Magnum photographer Bruce Gilden. Through black and white and color photography, Gilden spends eight days and nights prowling the city's streets, looking for informal portrait opportunities. Up close and detailed, Gilden's approach reveals the character and characters, their faces illuminated by flash in an honest portrayal of our humanity. In a time when we do our best to maintain and control our appearance, Gilden reveals our authentic selves with no excuses for his sincere and direct approach to street portraiture.This project was commissioned and published by Leica Camera USA. Bruce Gilden, an Iconic street photographer with a unique style, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1946. He first went to Penn State University but he found his sociology courses too boring for his temperament and he quit college. Gilden briefly toyed with the idea of being an actor but in 1967, he decided to buy a camera and to become a photographer. Although he did attend some evening classes at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Bruce Gilden is to be considered substantially a self-taught photographer. The photographic style of Bruce Gilden is defined by the dynamic accent of his pictures, his special graphic qualities, and his original and direct manner of shooting the faces of passers-by with a flash. Gilden’s powerful images in black and white and now in color have brought the Magnum photographer worldwide fame. Gilden has received many awards and grants for his work, including National Endowments for the Arts fellowships (1980, 1984 and 1992), French “Villa Medicis Hors les Murs” grant (1995), grants from the New York State Foundation for the Arts ( 1979, 1992 and 2000), a Japan Foundation Artist Fellowship (1999) and in 2013 a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship. Gilden joined Magnum Photos in 1998. He lives in Beacon, New York.Michael Foley opened his eponymous gallery in the fall of 2004 after fourteen years of working with notable photography galleries, including Fraenkel Gallery, Howard Greenberg Gallery, and Yancey Richardson Gallery. In 2002, Foley continued his interest in educating and working with artists by serving on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts, Fashion Institute of Technology, and International Center of Photography, where he teaches and lectures on contemporary photography issues at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He joined Leica in 2023 as the Gallery Director of the New York Meatpacking Store & Gallery. Foley lives in Manhattan with his wife, Maya, and son, Jack. Image by Bruce Gilden
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Creative Practices Program Chair's Info Session—Onsite One-Year Certificate Program
Join Darin Mickey, Creative Practices Chair to learn about ICP's onsite One-Year Certificate in Creative Practices Program. Darin will discuss program structure, curriculum highlights, faculty, student life, the admissions process, our vibrant community, and more.You’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions directly to Darin Mickey, the Program Chair, and 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 ICP alum Nina Tanujaya (CP '23)

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