Join us for the final Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks of the spring season as David Alekhuogie joins Sam Contis in a conversation moderated by Sara Ickow, ICP’s Associate Director of Collections. Alekhuogie and Contis will discuss their respective practices, involving their relationships to the archives of photographers who have documented the American West, including Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange.
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 2024-2025 Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series is made possible through generous support from the Rosenblum Family. Speakers in the 2024-2025 season include: Erin Schaff with Dr. Deborah Willis (March 5, 2025), Keisha Scarville and Carla Williams (March 11, 2025), Johnny Miller with Marysarah Quinn (April 7, 2025); Killi Yuyan and Elizabeth Krist (December 11, 2024), Elle Perez and Mark McKnight (March 4), Joseph Rodriguez and Sheila Pree Bright (November 21, 2024), and Maddie McGarvey and Karin Anderson (October 21, 2024).
Current ICP students and faculty of the One-Year Certificate programs are automatically enrolled and invited to attend all lectures.
The 2025-2026 Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series is made possible through generous support from the Rosenblum Family.
This program is being offered both in person at ICP, located on NYC's Lower East Side, and online. The program will not be recorded. Tickets to attend the conversation in person are $5 and do not include access to ICP’s galleries. Arrive early to see our current exhibitions, “Weegee: Society of the Spectacle”, “To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography” and “American Job: 1940 - 2011” on view until May 5, 2025.
About the Guests
David Alekhuogie is an artist, an educator, and a photographer. His work considers the role of the archive, photographic language, and translation in the construction of race, gender identity, and power. He lives and works in Los Angeles and has had solo exhibitions at Assembly, in Houston; Chicago Artists Coalition; Commonwealth and Council, in Los Angeles; Company Gallery, in New York; the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery; Skibum MacArthur, in Los Angeles; and Yancey Richardson, in New York. His work has also been included in group exhibitions at Fraenkel Gallery, in San Francisco; the High Museum of Art, in Atlanta; the J. Paul Getty Museum, in Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Regen Projects, in Los Angeles.
Alekhuogie’s work is in the collections of the Everson Museum of Art; the Fitchburg Art Museum; the George Eastman Museum; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; the J. Paul Getty Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Milwaukee Art Museum; the Minneapolis Institute of Art; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Alekhuogie, who received an MFA from Yale University and a BFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago, is a recipient of the 2025 louis tiffany award and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant.
Sam Contis (b. 1982) is a visual artist working with photography and moving image. Contis’s work has recently been exhibited at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA. This May, the survey exhibition Sam Contis: Moving Landscape, curated by Anna Arabindan-Kesson, will open at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. She is the recipient of a 2024 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award and a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship. Contis has published three monographs: Deep Springs (Mack, 2017), Day Sleeper (Mack, 2020), and Overpass (Aperture, 2022). She is a Senior Critic in Photography at the Yale School of Art.
Image by Sam Contis.