In Process

Audio conversations with ICP community members discussing the thoughts and actions that support their creative endeavors

© Mengwen Cao

Mengwen Cao (NMN 2016 and DOC 2017)—a 2018 Magnum Foundation Fellow and 2019 PDN Emerging Photographer—discusses the process behind her visual stories, work that explores the push-pull of cultural identity and community connection. Delve into her projects Here We Are and I Stand Between online. View more images on the ICP Alumni Instagram account.

Previous Interviews

Sarah Blesener (DOC 2016)

Alumni Highlights

A young man turns to run away from the National Bolivarian Police during a protest in El Paraiso in Caracas, Venezuela, on January 30, 2019. This was one of the first of a series of demonstrations in support of Interim President Juan Guaido and against dictator Nicolas Maduro. © Andrea Hernández

Sarah Blesener (DOC 2016) and Andrea Hernández (DOC 2018) were named two of Artsy’s Top 20 Rising Female Photojournalists.

Semyon Krasilschikov, who served in the Great Patriotic War, celebrating his 100th birthday in Brighton Beach. © Alexey Yurenev 

Alexey Yurenev (DOC 2018) and writer Yelena Akhtiorskaya received the arts and culture reporting medallion from the Society of the Silurians Excellence in Journalism Awards for their New York Times photo essay “Welcome to Brighton Beach.”

A young Yemeni woman visits a landfill run by the Saudi-led coalition to secure food for her goats in Buraiqeh, Aden Governorate. © Amira Al-Sharif

Amira Al-Sharif’s (DOC 2011) personal photo essay on her homeland, Yemen, was published in National Geographic.

© Daniela Constantini

Daniela Constantini (DOC 2016) was named one of several laureates for the House of Dior’s 2019 Dior Photography Award for Young Talents. Her work is on view in The Art of Color exhibition at the Parc des Ateliers in Arles, France from July 1 through September 22, 2019.

Arda Asena, Marsyas [installation], 2019.

Galerist (Istanbul, Turkey) showed Marsyas, featuring the work of Arda Asena (CP 2017) and Mia Dudek, from April 18 through May 25, 2019. 

First harvest on the roof of the Opera Bastille, 2018. © Giovanni Del Brenna

Giovanni Del Brenna’s (DOC 2002) photo project on urban agriculture, Paris Agricole, was exhibited on the grids of the Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) of Paris from June 3 through July 1, 2019.

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