In Conversation—”The Camps America Built”

This event is free with museum admission. 

ICP is thrilled to welcome 2026 Infinity Award Honoree Haruka Sakaguchi in conversation with historian Julie Abo and Professor Mika Kennedy held in conjunction with the opening of Sakaguchi’s project, The Camps America Built on view in ICP’s free ground floor incubator space through May 25, 2026. Join the speakers after the program in the ICP Incubator space for a special tea reception from 3-4 PM.

Haruka Sakaguchi is the 2026 Infinity Award honoree for the Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism Award.

Stay after the program for the opening reception of The Camps America Build on view in ICP’s Incubator Space through May 25, 2026.

This program is being offered both in person at ICP, located on NYC's Lower East Side, and online.

This ticket does not include access to ICP Galleries. Reserve your timed tickets to visit our exhibitions, Eugène Atget: The Making of a Reputation, HARD COPY NEW YORK, and Latitudes: Nuits Balnéaires and François-Xavier Gbré before the program, on view through May 4.

About ICP Infinity Awards

Since 1985, the ICP Infinity Awards have recognized major contributions and emerging talent in the fields of photojournalism, art, fashion photography, and publishing.

2026 Honorees

Joel Meyerowitz - Lifetime Achievement Award

Haruka Sakaguchi - Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism Awards

Collier Schorr - Commercial and Editorial Photography Award

Tarrah Krajnak- Photographic Art and New Media Award

About the Speakers

Haruka Sakaguchi (b. 1990, Osaka, Japan) is a freelance photographer based in New York City. Her work explores themes of cultural memory and intergenerational trauma, often tracing overlooked histories through intimate portraiture and long-form documentary practice.

Her projects have taken her around the world—from documenting atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to photographing former incarcerees and descendants of America’s WWII concentration camps, to creating satirical portraits of Hollywood actors typecast in stereotypical roles. In recent years, she directed Loyal American, a short film produced in partnership with the National Geographic Society, expanding her storytelling into moving image.

Haruka’s clients and collaborators include National Geographic, The New York Times, TIME Magazine, The New Yorker, Smithsonian Magazine, and The Washington Post, among many others. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally, including at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Osservatorio Fondazione Prada in Milan, and Photoville in New York and Los Angeles. She is the recipient of the 2025 CENTER Socially Engaged Award, a 2023 National Geographic Storytelling Grant, a 2021 Duke Archive of Documentary Arts Collection Award, and the 2020 Newswomen’s Club of New York Front Page Award for Photo Essay. She was also recognized by Pictures of the Year International (POY) as a finalist in 2021.

Through her documentary practice, Haruka seeks to honor lived experience while fostering dialogue about the legacies we carry forward.

Mika Kennedy is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies in the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity at Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY. She is gosei, or fifth-generation Japanese American. Her research is focused on Japanese American incarceration during WWII. Outside of work, she co-curated of the Japanese American Citizens League Detroit Chapter’s grassroots exhibit of Japanese American community in metro Detroit, Exiled to Motown, and remains active with the JACL Detroit Chapter. She is also part of the leadership team for Tsuru for Solidarity’s Black Reparations and Solidarity Campaign.

Julie Yoshiko Abo is an independent researcher and community-centered public historian, educator and organizer. Abo is a co-chair of the Healing Justice Campaign for Tsuru for Solidarity, Tule Lake Committee board member, Minidoka Pilgrimage Planning Committee member and a friend of the Wakasa Memorial Committee.

Header image: Haruka Sakaguchi