Explore photobooks from the ICP Library and connect with fellow photobook enthusiasts at ICP's Photobook Club!
This session of Photobook Club is hosted by ICP Library work-study students Cydnii Jones, Jenny Yiyun Kuo, Laura Alvear Roa, and Sara Meneses Cuapio. The selections explore alternative approaches to photography that in turn produce altered realities, including Daisuke Yokota's Immerse, Jerry Burchfield's Primal Images, and Alina Fresquez Patrick's How to grow una flor en el desierto.
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About the Speakers
Cydnii Jones is a Brooklyn based, early career artist primarily working in photography and mixed media looking at themes of home, community, and memory. They’re also a writer, singer, and event curator. Cydnii attended the famed Fiorello LaGuardia High School for Music, Art, and Performing Arts where they majored in fine arts, and received their bachelors in Communications with a minor in Africana Studies from Goucher College in 2019. Currently, they’re studying at the International Center of Photography in their One-Year Certificate Program.
Jenny Yiyun Kuo is an artist and architecture designer, whose work bridges built spaces and photographic narratives. She was born in Taipei, Taiwan while her family originated from Hong Kong and Macau.In her teenage years, she moved to the States for education and later relocated to Japan for work. Having lived across various cultural settings, she is keen to explore the idea of identity and memory as evolving legacies shaped by time and place. She had been actively engaged in making buildings for more than 9 years; yet in recent years, she has pivoted towards constructing images with the camera and in the darkroom.
Jenny holds a BFA and BArch from RISD, and she recently completed the One-year Certificate Program at International Center of Photography.
Laura Alvear Roa is a multidisciplinary artist fascinated by and devoted to more than human animals. Through scientific research, film photography, and moving images, Laura explores the roles imposed on animal bodies in our society, critically examines evolving concepts of humanity, and imagines the subjective experiences of individual animals. She holds an M.A. in Animal Studies from New York University and a B.A. in Literature and Philosophy from Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. Recently, she was a fellow in the ColLab Studio residency at Uniondocs and she completed the One-year Certificate Program at the International Center of Photography.
Sara Meneses Cuapio is a photographer and designer from Tlaxcala, Mexico. She holds a Bachelor’s in Craft Design from the University of Guadalajara, with additional studies in Art History and Social Anthropology. In 2022, she completed the Photographic Production Seminar at the Center for the Image in Mexico City and was awarded the Young Creators Grant by Mexico’s National Fund for Culture and the Arts.
In 2024, became a finalist for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award for her series Raízhambre. That same year, she was invited as a guest of honor at the Biarritz Film Festival in France and at the Kranj Photo Fest in Slovenia. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in Mexico and abroad, in venues such as the Ernst Leitz Museum in Germany, BASE in Milan, Italy, the Center for the Image in Mexico City, and the Art Pavilion in England. Sara M. Cuapio is currently studying Documentary Practice at the International Center of Photography in New York.
Cover Image by Pasinee Pramunwong
