This event introduces students to their year-long immersive program, offering a chance to meet the Program Chairs and OYC Team, gain insights into the curriculum, and explore the resources available to support their artistic growth.Event Highlights:Meet the Program Chairs and OYC Team: Learn about the program structure, expectations, and how ICP will support your development as a photographer.Work-Study Orientation: Get essential information for students in the Work-Study program on how to balance work and study commitments.ICP’s One-Year Certificate Programs in Creative Practices, Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism, and Documentary Practice: Visual Storytelling Online provide a hands-on, immersive experience, complemented by work-study opportunities, global connections, and state-of-the-art facilities.Note: This is a private event for students of the ICP One-year Certificate Programs held onsite in New York City. If you would like to join the ICP One-year Certificate Program, learn more at icp.org/school/oycFor questions, reach out to the admissions team at [email protected].

Join us for a week of photography activities at ICP especially designed for curious kids ages 6-11 and families who love art and photography. No prior skill or experience is required. Every day, a different art section will activate ICP galleries, inspired by the exhibitions Edward Burtynsky: The Great Acceleration and Sheida Soleimani: Panjereh. Monday: Landscape Coloring Pages Tuesday: Anti Strike Bird Window Decal (World Photography Day) Wednesday: Climate Collage Thursday: Sticker Collage Friday: Cyanotypes Free with museum admission. No registration is required.

Don’t miss the final day to experience Oksana Parafeniuk: War Threads at the ICP Incubator Space.Created while living and working in Kyiv during the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, this powerful exhibition brings together documentary photography, family archive, and embroidered interventions to explore the impact of war on memory, identity, and daily life. Through deeply personal and politically urgent imagery, Ukrainian photojournalist Oksana Parafeniuk offers a moving portrait of resilience and resistance.Presented as part of ICP’s Incubator program—spotlighting emerging voices in documentary photography—the exhibition is located on the ground floor and is free and open to the public during museum and café hours. Image: Oksana Parafeniuk, from the series War Threads, 2024

With Edward Burtynsky's imagery of industrialization as context, join photographers Rhiannon Adam and Brooke Holm as they dive into their expansive practices around the photographic landscape - from the frontiers of space and the depths of the oceans.The conversation is being offered both in person at ICP, located on NYC's Lower East Side and online. Tickets to attend in person in the ICP library are $5 and include access to ICP’s galleries. Arrive early to see our current exhibitions, Edward Burtynsky: The Great Acceleration and Sheida Soleimani: Panjereh. , on view through September 28. About the SpeakersRhiannon Adam is an Irish queer photographic artist working between London, New York and South Africa. She studied at Central Saint Martins and Cambridge University, and is the author of three books, including “Big Fence / Pitcairn Island” and “Polaroid: The Missing Manual”. Her long-term research projects explore complex narratives of social injustice, marginalized communities and the abuse of power, investigating the fine lines between utopia and dystopia, reality and fiction. Her practice is grounded in the study of cause and effect, looking at the micro to reflect on the macro urgencies of our time. While rooted in photography, her explorations include archive, video, audio, and AI, questioning the very nature of the photographic medium. Adam has received numerous awards, including the Photographers' Gallery New Talent Award, the Meitar Award for Excellence in Photography. Her work is regularly exhibited and published internationally.In 2021, Adam was selected as the only female crew member from a million applicants to participate in “dearMoon”, a week-long lunar circumnavigation program abroad with Elon Musk and SpaceX's Starship launched by Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa. For three years, Adam immersed himself in the space industry and the mission became her sole purpose, but in June 2024, Maezawa abruptly canceled the mission, leaving the crew to pick up the fragments of their lives. The resulting project - Rhi-Entry was a 2024 Sony World Photography Awards winner, and is currently on show at PHest in Monopoli before travelling to Verzasca and Fotografiska Tallinn later in 2025. Brooke Holm (b. 1987) is an Australian-American interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Holm’s artistic practice observes the celestial and anatomical body of the Earth through photography, moving image, sound and installation projects. Using sensory experiences of scale, time and perspective, Holm examines humanity’s opposing practices of reverence and exploitation of bodies. By shifting perception and altering our conventional viewpoint, the intwined connection between human and non-human life emerges as our anthropocentric myths fall away. Holm has exhibited her work internationally in solo and group shows, most recently at Fotografiska, The Contemporary Museum of Photography, Art & Culture in Stockholm. Brooke has attended artist residencies at Mass MoCA, The Arctic Circle, MaréMotrice and the Rogers Art Foundation. Image by Brooke Holm

Explore ICP’s photobook library during ICP’s Photobook Club, a community meet-up for book enthusiasts, photographers, and lovers of printed images. Bring your favorite photobook, zine, or other image focused publication to share while exploring monthly selections from the ICP stacks during this community-building event. This month, explore selections from artist, educator, and activist Sheida Soleimani whose exhibition, Sheida Soleimani: Panjereh, is on view at ICP through September 28.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.About the ExhibitionIn Panjereh, Soleimani uses her family’s history—specifically her parents' flight from Iran as political refugees following the 1979 revolution—as a framework for exploring how meaning and memory are shaped by migration.Known for her studio-based constructions that layer photographs, props, live animals, and her parents into magical realist tableaus, Soleimani expands this approach in Panjereh while also debuting a new body of work: a series of close-up analogue photographs of injured birds. These works draw from her practice as a federally licensed wildlife rehabilitator and founder of Congress of the Birds, a care tradition she inherited from her mother.In these new images, Soleimani draws attention to the plight of migratory birds, many of whom are wounded on their journeys through populated areas, using them as metaphors for the social, political, and environmental barriers faced by displaced people around the world. The exhibition also includes a new site-specific wall drawing created especially for ICP’s galleries. Image by Sheida Soleimani, Behind the door.

This event is free with museum admission.Join us for a guided walking tour of the exhibitions Edward Burtynsky: The Great Acceleration and Sheida Soleimani: Panjereh, led by a museum educator.About the ExhibitionsEdward Burtynsky: The Great Acceleration The first solo institutional exhibition of world-renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky’s work in New York City in over twenty years, The Great Acceleration reveals the depth of Burtynsky's investigation into the human alteration of natural landscapes around the world, revealing both their present fragility and enduring beauty.This retrospective features over seventy photographs—including many of Burtynsky’s landmark images, some never before exhibited—alongside three ultra high-resolution murals and a visual and narrative timeline of his creative life. The Great Acceleration serves as both an urgent call for environmental awareness and an invitation to appreciate the sublimity that persists in the landscape, deepening our understanding of the global challenges we face today.Sheida Soleimani: Panjereh In Panjereh, Soleimani uses her family’s history—specifically her parents' flight from Iran as political refugees following the 1979 revolution—as a framework for exploring how meaning and memory are shaped by migration.Known for her studio-based constructions that layer photographs, props, live animals, and her parents into magical realist tableaus, Soleimani expands this approach in Panjereh while also debuting a new body of work: a series of close-up analogue photographs of injured birds. These works draw from her practice as a federally licensed wildlife rehabilitator and founder of Congress of the Birds, a care tradition she inherited from her mother.In these new images, Soleimani draws attention to the plight of migratory birds, many of whom are wounded on their journeys through populated areas, using them as metaphors for the social, political, and environmental barriers faced by displaced people around the world. The exhibition also includes a new site-specific wall drawing created especially for ICP’s galleries. 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 © Pasinee Pramunwong

Join us at the International Center of Photography for the opening of Michael Kenna: Japan / A Love Story, a guest exhibition presented by Nikkei and the Financial Times in celebration of their 10-year anniversary.For nearly forty years, Kenna has photographed Japan with quiet devotion—capturing the atmosphere of temples, forests, and remote landscapes with a profound sense of stillness and care. His minimalist black-and-white images go beyond documentation, inviting us to pause, observe, and connect with the poetry of place.Presented on ICP’s Ground Floor, the exhibition offers a space for reflection, where tradition, nature, and perception gently converge. Red Crown Crane Feeding, Tsurui, Hokkaido, Japan, 2005. © Michael Kenna/Courtesy Peter Fetterman Gallery