The Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series with Kennedi Carter and Adraint Khadafhi Bereal

Photographer Kennedi Carter will be joined by artist and creative director Adraint Khadafhi Bereal for the next conversation in the Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer lecture series this spring. Carter will discuss the throughlines of intracommunal safety and Black interiority across the trajectory of her career followed by a discussion with Bereal.

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, Edwaard Burtynsky, Naima Green, David Alekhuogie, Keisha Scarville, Johnny Miller, and Erin Schaff.

Image by Kennedi Carter

About the Series

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

Kennedi Carter (b. 1998), is a digital media based artist, born in Charlottesville, Virginia and raised in Durham, North Carolina. Through archiving & photography, she aims to highlight the aesthetics & sociopolitical aspects of Black life as well as the overlooked beauties of the Black experience: skin, texture, trauma, pleasure, love and community. Her work aims to reinvent notions of creativity and confidence in the realm of Blackness. Her work has been featured in the RISD Museum (2022), the Nasher Museum of art at Duke (2024), Saatchi Gallery (2024), the Harwood Museum of Art (2022), British Vogue Magazine (2020), & Atmos Magazine (2025).

Adraint Khadafhi Bereal (b. 1998) is an artist from Waco, Texas, based in New York. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Design and Creative Technologies, Bereal’s work untangles the nuances of American culture by interrogating and provoking truth to reveal itself. Working across photography, design, and publishing, he examines how systems of representation shape identity. His debut monograph, The Black Yearbook, expanded a student project into a national portrait of Black collegiate life, revealing the emotional and aesthetic vocabularies of a generation navigating visibility and belonging.

Bereal’s work is held in the permanent collection of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and has been exhibited nationally. His upcoming solo exhibition at the Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas at Austin marks a return to the institution where his practice first took root.

Header image by Kennedi Carter