Join us at ICP for the second conversation in the Spring 2025 Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks photographer lecture series featuring Keisha Scarville and Carla J. Williams. Keisha will speak on her role as artist and curator in To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography, and discuss utilizing the archive as a form for imagining new futures.
This program is being offered both in person at ICP, located on NYC's Lower East Side, and online. Tickets to attend the conversation in person are $5 and do not include access to ICP’s galleries. Arrive early to see current exhibitions Weegee: Society of the Spectacle, To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography, and American Job: 1940–2011, on view through May 5, 2025.
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Keisha Scarville (b. 1975, Brooklyn, NY; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) weaves together themes dealing with loss, latencies and the elusive body. Her work has been widely exhibited, including at the Studio Museum, Harlem; Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Contact Gallery, Toronto; the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, New York; Light Work, Syracuse, New York; the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York and Higher Pictures Gallery, New York. Recent group exhibitions include The Rose, Lumber Room, Portland, OR (curated by Justine Kurland); If I Had a Hammer, the 2022 Fotofest Biennial, Houston and All of Them Witches, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles (curated by Dan Nadel and Laurie Simmons). Her work is held in the collections of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY; the Denver Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts. She has participated in residencies at Light Work, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, WOPHA, Miami, Baxter Street CCNY and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has appeared in publications including Vice, Small Axe and The New York Times where her work has also received critical review. She is a recipient of the 2023 Creator Lab Photo Fund and awarded the inaugural 2024 Saltzman Prize in Photography. Her first book, lick of tongue rub of finger on soft wound, was published by MACK and shortlisted in the 2023 Aperture/Paris Photobook Awards. She is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University and a faculty member at Parsons School of Design in New York.
Carla Williams is a photographer, archivist, editor, and writer, and author of two histories of photography, including The Black Female Body: A Photographic History with Deborah Willis. Williams’ first monograph, Tender, was published in 2023 by TBW Books. She exhibits with Higher Pictures in New York. She lives in New Orleans.Carla Williams is a photographer, archivist, editor, and writer, and author of two histories of photography, including The Black Female Body: A Photographic History with Deborah Willis. Williams’ first monograph, Tender, was published in 2023 by TBW Books. She exhibits with Higher Pictures in New York. She lives in New Orleans.
About the Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture 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 Karrin 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.
