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 Foundation

Magnum 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 Center

The 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 Speakers

Kateryna 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