Join us for the next fall Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks lecture of the year featuring world renowned photographers Ishiuchi Miyako and Katayama Mari, moderated by curator Pauline Vermare. Both artists will discuss the wide-ranging scope of their career, including both Katayama’s and Ishiuchi's work on view in our current exhibition I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now.
This program is being offered both in person at ICP, located on NYC's Lower East Side, and online. Current ICP students and faculty of the One-Year Certificate programs are automatically enrolled and invited to attend all lectures.
Past speakers of the Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Lecture series include: JEB, Philip Cheung, Donna Ferrato, Naima Green, David Alekhuogie, Keisha Scarville, Roe Ethridge, and Erin Schaff.
About the Series:
The 2026-2027 Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series is made possible through generous support from the Rosenblum Family. Additional support for this program was provided by the Japan Foundation, New York and for Miyako Ischiuchi, by Marukawa Collection.
ICP is thrilled to honor Naomi Rosenblum’s contribution to the field and to further her life’s work through this lecture series. Naomi Rosenblum was one of the leading photography historians of her generation and the author of A World History of Photography and A History of Women Photographers. The 2025-2026 Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series is made possible through generous support from the Rosenblum Family.
About the Speakers:
Miyako Ishiuchi (born in Kiryū, Japan, 1947) is a Japanese photographer based in Gunma prefecture. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Kimura Ihei Memorial Photographic Award (1978) and the Hasselblad Award (2014). Her work is included in collections worldwide.
Katayama Mari is a multidisciplinary artist based in Gunma, Japan. Born in 1987 in Saitama, she graduated with a Master’s degree from the Department of Intermedia Art at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2012. Katayama’s artistic practice begins with intricately hand-sewn fabric objects which feature in her photography, video, and activist art projects. She uses her body as a living sculpture, a mannequin and a lens through which to reflect society and our environment.
Pauline Vermare is the Phillip and Edith Leonian Curator, Photography, Brooklyn Museum. Previously, she served as the cultural director of Magnum Photos in New York, and curator at the International Center of Photography and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The 2026-2027 Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series is made possible through generous support from the Rosenblum Family. Additional support for this program was provided by the Japan Foundation, New York and for Miyako Ischiuchi, by Marukawa Collection.
Header Image: Ishiuchi Miyako, Mother’s #39, 2002. Courtesy Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, and Aperture
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