ICP’s Incubator is located on ICP’s ground floor. The space is free and open to the public during café and museum hours.
Photographer and ICP alum Andrea Hernández Briceño has been documenting the indigenous Huöttöja people in the Amazon basin since 2024. Many members of the Huöttöja community feel the pull of the mining industry, which promises to make them rich but threatens to dilute their culture. Hernández Briceño was invited to document their traditions and ancestral knowledge as a way to preserve them, but also set herself the goal to avoid being another outsider that left them feeling exploited. She aims to create a body of work that reflects the Huöttöja worldview and spirituality by nurturing a long term relationship with the community and its main goal: to show us that humans are not separate from nature, but an extension of it.
About The Artist
Andrea Hernández Briceño is a Venezuelan journalist, visual storyteller, Magnum Foundation fellow, TEDx speaker and National Geographic explorer based in Caracas. She tells representative stories about gender, environment and social phenomena that put the dignity of participants in the center of the narrative while using different formats and a perceptive approach to magic. She was awarded the Women Photograph grant in 2024, three POY Latams (2023 and 2025) and has been shortlisted for the Marilyn Stafford Award twice.
Hernández Briceño co-founded the all women collectives Ayün Fotógrafas and Solunar. She teaches the Ojo Pelao and MiraVzla free workshops, making photography education more accessible in her country. She believes in the importance of creating alliances with communities through horizontal practices that combine education, community building and storytelling initiatives. Her work explores narratives that search for humanity in the space between seemingly opposing ideas as a result of growing up, documenting and resisting in Venezuela, a place of deep contradictions.
As part of a team effort she published a book called Mango Season that looks into food insecurity and the resolve to live a dignified life in Venezuela with Raya Editorial and El Archivo. Hernández Briceño collaborates with The Washington Post, The Guardian, El País and other international outlets. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Paris, Mexico City and Venezuela.
About the ICP Incubator Space
ICP’s Incubator Space is a new exhibition program designed to highlight the work of emerging photographers who are responding in real time to the world around us. ICP will present a rotating selection of projects by imagemakers experimenting with and pushing boundaries around the documentary tradition. ICP’s Incubator Space is curated by Sara Ickow, Associate Director of Exhibitions at ICP.
Header image: A light shines upon the tip of the Huöttöja communal home “churuata” in the Amazonas state, Venezuela, on April 21, 2025. In the indigenous Huöttöja people’s worldview, this branch functions as an antenna connecting the earth with the spiritual realm. The “churuata” is the place where shaman Jattupa tells the stories that conform the Huöttöja way of life, viewing humans not as separate from nature but as an extension of it.
Special Thanks
This exhibition is made possible with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF). The opinions and views of the authors do not necessarily state or reflect those of the RBF.
Exhibitions at ICP are supported, in part, by Michael Clinton, Caryl Englander, Renee Harbers Liddell, Almudena Legorreta, Jessica Nagle, Ken Nicholson, Jeffrey Rosen, the ICP Board of Trustees, the Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
