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 Speakers
Rhiannon 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
