ICP alumni Catalina Martin-Chico, Sarah Blesener, and Alexey Yurenev return to ICP’s home on the Lower East Side for a conversation on visual strategies in documentary practice moderated by Karen Marshall, chair of ICP's Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism One Year Certificate program.
This program is being offered both in person at ICP, located on NYC's Lower East Side, and online.
This program is co-presented with World Press Photo and FUJIFILM North America Corporation.
About the Speakers
Sarah Blesener (they/she) is an Emmy-nominated visual journalist based in New York City whose work focuses on survivor’s testimonies in the aftermath of gendered violence, abuses of power, and sexual assault. Her approach works with anonymous portraiture and collaborative storytelling methods. Alongside photographs, Sarah uses archival imagery, mixed media, poetry, and painting. Sarah also works as an educator, centering their practice on poetics, process and ethics.
Catalina Martin-Chico is a Franco-Spanish photographer who lives in Paris. She trained at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York, where she lived for many years. Her work is part of the tradition of humanistic photography, of documentary and investigative photojournalism. She is one of the rare photojournalists to work regularly in Yemen, where she has been working since 2007, for reports published in Le Monde among others. She won the ICRC's 2011 Humanitarian Visa, and the work was exhibited at the International Visa for Image Festival the same year for her involvement in covering the Yemeni revolution. She won the 2017 Canon Women's Photojournalist Award for her project on FARC ex-fighters in Colombia. Produced over a year, her work is exhibited in the 2018 edition of the Visa pour l'Image Festival. In 2024, she won the Françoise Demulder award at the Visa pour l’Image Festival and is one of the 2019 World Press Photo award-winning photographers. Martin-Chico leads as many long-term projects as she can, which she publishes in the French and foreign press (Le Monde, Geo, Der Spiegel, New York Times, Le Figaro Magazine, L ‘Obs, VSD, Marie-Claire, and ELLE) and exhibits in several countries, including Paris, Bruxels, New York, Canada, Madrid, Rome, and Milan.
Alexey Yurenev is a photographer, visual researcher, and educator whose work examines how technology shapes the production of knowledge and collective memory. His projects have been published in The New York Times, National Geographic, Topic, and FOAM Magazine, and his work has been recognized by organizations such as Photographer of the Year International, the Silurian Society of New York, and Dummy Award, as well as receiving nominations for an Emmy and Shorty Awards. Yurenev’s work has been exhibited at the FOAM Museum, Hangar Gallery and collected by Johns Hopkins University Special Collections. In 2020, Yurenev co-founded FOTODEMIC.org, a platform dedicated to innovative visual strategies, and became a faculty member at the International Center of Photography in New York. He lectures worldwide, including at Columbia University, Johns Hopkins, Aalto University, Photography & Theory, CatchLight, and the Nederlands Fotomuseum.
About Our Partners
The annual World Press Photo Contest recognizes and celebrates the best photojournalism and documentary photography produced over the last year.
FUJIFILM North America Corporation, a marketing subsidiary of FUJIFILM Holdings America Corporation, consists of six operating divisions. The Imaging Division provides consumer and commercial photographic products and services, including silver halide consumables; inkjet consumables; digital printing equipment, along with service and support; personalized photo products fulfillment; film; one-time-use cameras; and the popular INSTAX line of instant cameras, smartphone printers, instant film, and accessories. The Electronic Imaging Division markets its GFX System and X Series lines of mirrorless digital cameras, lenses, and accessories to provide a variety of content creation solutions for both still and moving imagery. The Optical Devices Division provides optical lenses for the broadcast, cinematography, closed circuit television, videography, and industrial markets, and also markets binoculars and other optical imaging solutions. The Graphic Communication Division utilizes its extensive industry knowledge to develop fully supported traditional and digital print solutions for industries including commercial print, wide format, and packaging with its comprehensive line of digital inkjet presses, production toner printers, and software. The Industrial Products Division delivers new products derived from Fujifilm technologies including data storage tape products, including OEM and FUJIFILM Ultrium LTO cartridges, desalination solutions, microfilters and gas separation membranes. The Non-Destructive Testing Division delivers radiography solutions to ensure high accuracy inspection of transportation infrastructure, and assets within aerospace, and oil and gas industries.
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