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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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Final Info Session with the Program Chairs—One-Year Certificate Program
Don’t miss the final opportunity to hear directly from Program Chairs, Darin Mickey, Creative Practices Chair, and Karen Marshall, Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism Chair. Learn about onsite One-Year Certificate program including 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 the program Chairs and 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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Image by Pasinee Pramunwong, Winter 2026 Exhibitions Tour.
Winter 2026 Exhibitions Tour (February 27)
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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ICP Photobook Club: Deirdre Donohue
ICP Photobook Club x Claudia de la Torre on "Holding the Image: When Reading Becomes an Encounter"
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 hosted by Claudia de la Torre, a Mexican, Berlin-based artist, educator, and independent publisher whose work sits at the intersection of printed media, conceptual publications, and installation. 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 Holding the Image: When Reading Becomes an Encounter"Across the eight books I have chosen, the publication appears as a conceptual system rather than a neutral carrier of images. Spanning different generations and contexts, these works explore how structure, sequencing, and material decisions shape meaning and guide perception. Grids, archives, reversals, and subtle disruptions challenge linear storytelling, asking the reader to navigate images spatially rather than simply move forward through them.Reading becomes a physical and sometimes fragile act that unsettles photographic certainty and foregrounds memory, absence, and transformation. Images double, rotate, dissolve, or remain suspended between visibility and disappearance, shifting the role of photography from document to experience. Some works loop, inventory, or reorganize; others introduce rhythm, emptiness, or delicate materials that change through time and use, making every encounter slightly different.Together, these publications position the artist book as a space where looking is inseparable from touch, and where meaning emerges through the act of reading itself. The talk approaches the artist book as an intimate, one-to-one meeting in which structure, perception, and temporality converge."Claudia de la TorreAbout the ArtistsClaudia de la Torre is a Mexican, Berlin-based artist, educator, and independent publisher whose work sits at the intersection of printed media, conceptual publications, and installation. Guided by the book as both form and idea, she examines the relationships between surface, structure, and meaning, exploring what a book can become as an artistic medium.In 2011, she founded backbonebooks, an independent publishing house conceived as an extension of her artistic practice. Since then, the platform has produced 95 titles and editions to date, dedicated to publishing and conceptualizing artist books as artworks.Since 2021, she has led the Artists’ Books Workshop in her studio, collaborating with creatives who wish to develop their ideas in book form. Through a process-based, conceptual, and collaborative approach, she seeks to open new perspectives on what a book can be and how it can operate across different contexts.Most recently, in 2025, she was awarded First Prize by Fundación Ankaria for her artist book The Waves, recognizing her ongoing exploration of the book as a performative and conceptual object.Her work is held in major international collections, including the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Faber Birren Collection of Books on Color at Yale University Library, the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Modern Art (New York). She regularly participates in book fairs and exhibitions worldwide. 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 (February 28)
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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An improvised drone used to deploy explosive devices found in the Kharkiv region, where such drones have become a common source of landmine contamination in recent years. August 3, 2025
Beyond Violence: The Impact of Evolving Technologies in Wartime Photography
Tickets to attend the program are $5 and include access to ICP’s galleries.ICP in collaboration with The Judith Center and Magnum Foundation presents Beyond Violence:The Impact of Evolving Technologies in Wartime Photography, a lecture by renowned Ukrainian curator Kateryna Radchenko.Radchenko’s lecture will explore the historical uses of photography—largely as a tool of authoritarian domination and as a means of witnessing and recording violence—and consider new possibilities for the medium in light of emerging technologies and broader social shifts. Following the lecture, Radchenko will be joined in a conversation with Cynthia Young, Director of the Robert Capa and Cornell Capa Archive at ICP, moderated by Kathryn Andrews, artist and Founder and Director of The Judith Center. About Magnum FoundationMagnum Foundation expands creativity and diversity in visual storytelling, activating new audiences and ideas through the innovative use of images. Through grants, mentorship, and creative collaborations, we partner with socially engaged imagemakers exploring new models for storytelling. Since our founding in 2007 by members of the Magnum Photos cooperative, we have made more than 600 direct grants to visual storytellers from over 80 countries.About The Judith CenterThe Judith Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles, California. In the United States, sexual discrimination is a systemic issue. At The Judith Center, we believe current efforts to combat this suffer from siloed thinking. Our mission is to advocate nationally for gender equality through interdisciplinary actions. We organize art commissions, exhibitions, talks, and events in collaboration with activists, scientists, artists, and politicians. We partner with university art museums and nonprofits to present our programming to a range of audiences. Our projects respond to critical contemporary situations and unearth the histories that have shaped them. We are impact-focused. We measure success through audience expansion, the creation of new forms of data, increasing opportunities for artists, and influence on policy. About the SpeakersKateryna Radchenko is a curator, artist, and photography researcher based in Ukraine. She is the Founder and Director of Odessa Photo Days, an international art festival established in 2015. Most recently, she was the curator of the touring exhibition “Beyond the Silence” (2024–2025) in collaboration with Magnum Photos; she also served as a Fellow in the Magnum Foundation’s Counter Histories Program. Radchenko has curated exhibitions at various international institutions, including Hangar Art Center, Brussels; Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest; and Mattatoio, Rome, among many others. Her writing has been published in the British Journal of Photography, MoMA Magazine, Photography & Culture Magazine, Fotograf, Magenta, EIKON, Foam Magazine, and Over.Cynthia Young is the director of the Robert Capa and Cornell Capa Archive at ICP. She has curated numerous exhibitions on photojournalism in the 1930–50s, including Capa in Color; We Went Back: Photographs from Europe 1933-1956 by Chim and The Mexican Suitcase: The Rediscovered Spanish Civil War Negatives of Robert Capa, Chim and Gerda Taro. Kathryn Andrews is a Los Angeles–based conceptual artist whose practice spans sculpture, large-scale printmaking, performance, and sound. Her work explores how seeing and sensemaking are political acts shaped by the seer’s position within economic, sociocultural, and linguistic systems. Her work has been exhibited internationally at museums and galleries, including the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; and Yuz Museum, Shanghai. Andrews is the founder and director of the nonprofit organization The Judith Center. Image by Valentyn Kuzan
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Image by Pasinee Pramunwong, Winter 2026 Exhibitions Tour.
Winter 2026 Exhibitions Tour (March 6)
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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Image by Pasinee Pramunwong, Winter 2026 Exhibitions Tour.
Winter 2026 Exhibitions Tour (March 7)
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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