HARD COPY NEW YORK In Conversation

Join us at ICP for a conversation between Ari Marcopoulos, Daniel Arnold, Aaron Stern and ICP Creative Director David Campany on the occasion of HARD COPY NEW YORK, curated by Campany and Stern and featuring work by Marcopoulos and Arnold.

*Speakers are subject to change without notice.

About the Exhibition

The International Center of Photography presents HARD COPY NEW YORK, an expanded iteration of Aaron Stern’s ongoing project exploring the contemporary use of the photocopied image. Following previous iterations, including a 2025 show in Los Angeles, the group exhibition uses the visual language of the copy machine to evoke nostalgia for a time of more deliberate picture making.

In our current moment when digital images proliferate, fewer physical copies of images are made or exhibited. Through this show, curators David Campany and Aaron Stern aim to reassert photography's inherent power: its ability to offer a profound, democratic, and tangible experience.

Ryan McGinley, Falling (Light Leak), 2013/2025. Photocopy by Aaron Stern © Ryan McGinley Studio
 

About the Speakers

David Campany is Creative Director of the International Center of Photography, New York. He has worked worldwide with institutions including MoMA New York, Tate, Whitechapel Gallery London, Centre Pompidou, Le Bal Paris, ICP New York, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Photographer’s Gallery London, ParisPhoto, PhotoLondon, The National Portrait Gallery London, Aperture, Steidl, MIT Press, Thames & Hudson, MACK and Frieze.

Ari Marcopoulos who was born in Amsterdam in 1957 and moved to New York City in 1980, is an artist currently living and working in New York. He has been the subject of several solo exhibitions, at Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Berkeley Art Museum in California; MoMA PS1, New York; Fergus McCaffrey Gallery, galerie frank elbaz, Paris; Marlborough Chelsea, New York; and Alleged Gallery, New York.  Marcopoulos participated in two Whitney Biennials (in 2008 and 2010), and his photographs are in collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; and Detroit Institute of Arts. Museum of Modern Art from the City of Paris. This May his exhibition Butter Black Snow opens at Strat Editions, Livingstone, Montana. 

Daniel Arnold (b. 1980, USA) is a photographer whose candid, street-level images capture the unfiltered rhythms of urban life. Arnold is based in New York and his first monograph, Pickpocket, was published by Elara Press in 2022. His photography regularly appears in publications such as The New York Times, Vogue, and Interview magazine. His recent solo exhibitions include New York Life, New York Life Gallery and New Photographs, Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco.

Aaron Stern is a Manhattan-based curator, artist and author working between the Americas and Europe. His photographs, books, writing and curatorial projects have appeared in publications and institutions such as RoseGallery, Webber Gallery, WSA, Magenta Plains, Dashwood Books, Perrotin, Photo Saint Germain, International Center for Photography, Paris Photo, Los Angeles Art Book Fair, Index Art Fair, Purple Magazine, The Paris Review, Vogue, The New York Times, Dazed&Confused, and Interview Magazine.

Header Image: David Black, from the series Candy Mountain, 2021/2025. Photocopy by Aaron Stern © David Black