Since 2012, ICP’s annual Spotlights Benefit has celebrated women in the visual arts, particularly those working in photography and film. Through engaging and intimate conversations addressing critical contemporary issues, this benefit highlights diverse voices and generates essential funding for ICP's education and exhibition programs.

This year, we are proud to honor the legendary photographer Graciela Iturbide, whose profound and poetic work has shaped the way we see the world. The benefit will coincide with the opening of her much-anticipated retrospective at ICP this fall.

Graciela Iturbide is known for her black-and-white images of the local communities in her native Mexico. In 1979, she published Juchitán de las Mujeres, a book of photographs that inspired her lifelong support of feminist causes. Iturbide has photographed in the Sonoran Desert and Juchitán de Zaragoza (Mexico), as well as in Cuba, Panama, India, Argentina, and the United States. Born in 1942 in Mexico City, Mexico, she studied film at the Centro de Estudios Cinematográficos of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in 1969, where she was influenced by the acclaimed Mexican photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo. She has received several awards, including the Hasselblad and the William Klein Award. This year, she received the Premio Princesa de Asturias 2025.

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Past Events

ICP Spotlights 2024: Kathy Ryan
ICP Spotlights 2022: Zanele Muholi
CP Spotlights 2021: Catherie Opie
ICP Spotlights 2020: Nadia Hallgren, Deana Lawson, Lindsay Peoples Wagner
ICP Spotlights 2018: Mickalene Thomas
ICP Spotlights 2017: Lynsey Addario
ICP Spotlights 2016 (November): Laurie Simmons
ICP Spotlights 2016 (January): Lauren Greenfield
ICP Spotlights 2015: Carrie Mae Weems
ICP Spotlights 2014: Shirin Neshat
ICP Spotlights 2013: Fashion Photography
ICP Spotlights 2012: Creating a Better World