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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. Online tickets to watch the livestream are available for free.
Join us at ICP for the premiere of the Spring 2023 Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series presenting writer, photographer, and art historian Teju Cole in conversation with writer, critic, and educator Zoë Hopkins. Cole will speak about his career as a novelist and the relationship between images and text including that in “Pharmakon,” a collection of Cole’s visual short stories published by MACK.
About the Series
The Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer’s Lecture Series presents one-hour live events featuring scholars and curators in conversation with renowned photographers who champion social change through photography, employ exciting alternative and emerging practices, or ask critical questions about the form. This year’s Spring Season includes Teju Cole (March 11), Pete Souza with Dawn Porter (March 20), Christina Fernandez with Katherine Bussard (April 3), and Shirin Neshat with Marina Abramovic and Joan Jonas (April 30).
Recent participants in ICP Talks include Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., Pacifico Silano, Farah Al Qasimi, Shala Miller, Sunil Gupta, Muriel Hasbun, Clifford Prince King, and Catherine Opie.
Current ICP students and faculty of the One-Year Certificate Programs are automatically enrolled and invited to attend all lectures.
The 2023-2024 Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series is made possible through generous support from the Rosenblum Family. Naomi Rosenblum (1925–2021) was a leading historian of photography and a collector; her collection is celebrated in the publication A Humanist Vision: The Naomi Rosenblum Family Collection.
About the Speakers
Teju Cole is a novelist, essayist, and photographer. Exhibited widely, he is the author of four photobooks, three works of fiction, and two essay collections. He was the photography critic of the New York Times Magazine from 2015 until 2019 and is currently Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing at Harvard. His honors include the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Windham-Campbell Prize, and the Internationaler Literaturpreis, and his work has been shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Photobook Award and, twice, for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Zoë Hopkins is a writer and critic based in New York. She received her BA in art history and African American studies at Harvard University, and is currently working on her MA in modern and contemporary art at Columbia University, where she researches conceptual art of the Black diaspora. Her writing has been published in Frieze Magazine, Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, ArtReview and Hyperallergic, as well as several exhibition catalogs.