The Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series with Pierpaolo Mittica and Adam Higginbotham

Join us at ICP this fall for the Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer lecture series featuring environmentalist photographer and filmmaker Pierpaolo Mittica. Encompassing the scope of his career including his coverage of Chernobyl which will be highlighted in a new documentary, Mittica will be joined by writer Adam Higginbotham in a conversation moderated by ICP's Director of Collections, Erin Barnett. 

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.

Image: Pierpaolo Mittica

About the Series:

The 2026-2027 Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series is made possible through generous support from the Rosenblum Family.

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:

Pierpaolo Mittica is an Italian humanist and environmental photographer/filmmaker based in Italy. He received the Masters Program at CRAF diploma in conservation, technique and history of photography in 1990, studying with, among others, Charles – Henri Favrod, Naomi Rosenblum and Walter Rosenblum, who is his spiritual father in photography. His photographs have been exhibited all over Europe, United States and China, and published in Italian and international newspapers and magazines among them: l'Espresso, Internazionale, Alias del Manifesto, Vogue Italia, Corriere della Sera, Repubblica, Panorama, Il Sole 24 ore, Oggi, Le Scienze, Vanity Fair, Photomagazine, Daylight Magazine, Days Japan International, Asahi Shinbum, The Telegraph, The Guardian, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Spiegel, Die Zeit, Wired USA, Asian Geo, China Newsweek, National Geographic USA.

Adam Higginbotham is a British writer born in Somerset in 1968. His first book, Midnight in Chernobyl, was published in 2019. The winner of the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and the Colby Award for Military and Intelligence History, Midnight in Chernobyl was named one of the New York Times’ Ten Best Books of 2019, and became an international bestseller translated into 25 languages.
His second book, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space, was published in 2024. A New York Times bestseller, Challenger won the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the 2024 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction, and was a finalist for the 2025 Carnegie Medal in Nonfiction. Higginbotham’s work has appeared in newspapers and magazines including The New Yorker, Wired, GQ, Smithsonian and The New York Times Magazine. The former US correspondent for The Sunday Telegraph Magazine and editor-in-chief of The Face, he lives with his family in New York City.

Header image by Pierpaolo Mittica