Join us for three dynamic lectures on collaborative practices, diving into the synergies between photographs and words, among photographers and their muses, and within collective creation on a global scale. In this session of ICP Talks: Lessons and Insights in Photography, learn from collaborative partners Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb on working collaboratively with image and text, photographers Sheila Pree Bright and Danny Wilcox Frazier on collaboration in community; and Dysturb co-founders Benjamin Petit and Pierre Terdjman on collective collaboration.
All lectures are scheduled to take place from 1 to 2 PM EST. Tickets are $35 for general audience and $30 for ICP members and give access to all three lectures.
Schedule
Collective Collaboration with Dysturb Co-Founders, Benjamin Petit and Pierre Terdjman
Wednesday, June 17, 1–2 PM EST
Working Collaboratively: Text and Image with Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb
Thursday, June 18, 1–2 PM EST
Collaboration in Community with Sheila Pree Bright*
Friday, June 19, 1–2 PM EST
*Danny Wilcox Frazier is no longer able to join this session.
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About the Series
ICP Talks: Lessons and Insights in Photography is a new online education program series presented by the International Center of Photography. Each three-part session invites leading photographers and educators to present work and ideas that excite and instruct on navigating all facets of the photographic community. Through lectures, conversations, and workshops, ICP Talks allows ICP's worldwide following to learn together, stay connected, and get inspired.
Speakers
Alex Webb has published 17 photography books, including The Suffering of Light, a survey book of 30 years of his color photographs. His work has been exhibited at museums worldwide including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A Magnum Photos member since 1979, Webb’s work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, and other publications. He has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. His most recent books are La Calle: Photographs from Mexico and the collaborative book, Brooklyn: The City Within, with Rebecca Norris Webb.
Originally a poet, Rebecca Norris Webb often interweaves her text and photographs in her seven books, most notably with her monograph, My Dakota—an elegy for her brother who died unexpectedly—with a solo exhibition of the work at the Cleveland Museum of Art (2015), among other venues. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Le Monde, National Geographic, and is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Cleveland Museum of Art, and George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York. Rebecca is an NEA grant recipient, and her eighth book, Night Calls, will be published by Radius in fall 2020.
Pierre Terdjman worked as a conflict photojournalist for more than 15 years for publications including the New York Times, Paris-Match, GQ, and Haaretz before co-founding Dysturb. Disheartened by the fast pace of the news cycle and by the growing public distrust towards the media, Terdjman started to wheat paste his own documentary images in Paris’ streets as a way to connect and inform directly a wider audience, bypassing traditional media channels. The initiative quickly grew internationally with the help of the photojournalism community at large: contributing visuals, pasting up murals and giving media literacy workshops. Eighty activations around the globe and more than 100 educational workshops later, the California-based nonprofit Catchlight awarded Terdjman as a 2019 Visual Leadership Fellow. Terdjman was among the judges of Bayeux-Calvados Awards for war correspondents in 2015, of the Getty Instagram Photo Contest in 2018, and of Lucas Dolega Award in 2016.
Benjamin Petit worked as a documentary photographer for more than 10 years, focusing on social inequality and climate change related issues, before leading Dysturb. He covered the Arab Spring aftermath in Yemen, the refugee crisis in Lebanon and documented climate refugees in the Dominican Republic. His work has been published in the New York Times, Vice, Days Japan, Le Figaro, and Paris Match, among other publications. A master’s graduate from the ENS Louis Lumière in Paris and the International Center of Photography in New York as a Fulbright Fellowship recipient, Petit explored innovative forms of news delivery, mostly through immersive installations and performances in the public space as a John S. Knight Fellow in journalism innovation at Stanford University in 2018-2019. Petit was a jury at the 2019 AfterMath Project Grant, the 2015 Gebran Tueni Foundation Grant and a portfolio reviewer at many cultural events, including Visa pour l’Image photo festival in France, Contact Photography festival and Zoom photojournalism festival in Canada, and Center Santa Fe.
Sheila Pree Bright is a fine-art photographer known for her photographic series, Young Americans, Plastic Bodies, and her most recent project, #1960Now, which was featured at the Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia in 2015. Bright earned an MFA in photography from Georgia State University and received the Center Prize from the Santa Fe Center of Photography for Suburbia. Her work was featured in the documentary Through the Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People. Bright has exhibited at the High Museum of Art (Atlanta), Smithsonian Anacostia Museum in Washington, DC, the Art Gallery of Hamilton (Ontario, Canada), and the Leica Gallery in New York City. Her work is in many private and public collections, including part of the Library of Congress, Washington DC, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, Connecticut), and Sprint PCS Art Collection (Overland, Kansas).
Documentary photographer and filmmaker Danny Wilcox Frazier focuses his work on marginalized communities both in and outside of the United States. With his photographs from Iowa, Frazier documented those individuals continuing to live traditional lives in rural communities across the state, people challenged economically but often unwavering in their conviction to stay. The project was awarded the Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize. Frazier’s photographs have been included in numerous books, including The Millennium Villages Project (MVP), Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuff, War Is Only Half The Story, Vol. IV, The Aftermath Project, and Land–Country Life in the Urban Age (catalogue).
