ICP Photobook Club: Library’s Hidden Gems

Explore photobooks from the ICP Library and connect with fellow photobook enthusiasts at ICP's Photobook Club.

This session of Photobook Club is hosted by work-study students, showcasing a selection of hidden-gem books in ICP’s library.

The Photobook Club takes place in the ICP library on the last Saturday of each month. This event is free to attend with RSVP.

About ICP Library  

ICP’s reading library contains over 20,000 books and periodicals. The reading room is currently open to the public during ICP’s monthly Photobook Club, to researchers by appointment, and to members during Library Member Hours.

Learn more about ICP’s Library here.  
 

About Speaker

Bing Lu (鲁冰) (b. 1999) is a Chinese photographer from Beijing, China. She received her BFA in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, in 2022, and her MFA in Photography, Video, and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2024. Working across portraiture, abstraction, and alternative processes, Lu’s practice examines the assumed objectivity of the photographic image and how meaning is produced, mediated, understood, and contested, considering photography both as a physical object and as part of a cumulative record of collective seeing. 

Lu’s solo exhibitions include tough (2025) and what remains after the image (2026), both presented at Gallery 60 NYC, New York. Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at the Photographic Resource Center, Boston; The Curated Fridge, Somerville, Massachusetts; Syosset Library Gallery, Syosset, New York; Raynham Hall Museum, Oyster Bay, New York; and PH21 Photography Gallery, Budapest, Hungary. Her photographs have been featured in publications including Art Spiel, No. 35 Gallery, Art Poetry Journal, Visual Art Journal, Float Photo Magazine, and Roundcube, and have received recognition from the Analog Sparks International Film Photography Awards. Lu currently resides in New York City.

Yuri Avila is a New York-based photographer from Mexico City. Her work blends a documentary approach with experimental interventions. Her long-form documentary projects examine issues of gender, migration, queerness and their intersections. In her creative practice, Yuri has worked with archival photographs, exploring different analog methods such as slide projectors and pinhole cameras and intervening images with embroidery and collage. 

With more than ten years of experience in media, Yuri has collaborated with major outlets, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Reuters, The Associated Press, The San Francisco Chronicle, and BuzzFeed News, as well as leading Mexican publications such as Animal Político and Aristegui Noticias. She is currently a student in the Documentary Practices Program at the International Center of Photography and an alum of the Creative Practices Certificate Program. She holds a master’s degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where she specialized in photojournalism and multimedia reporting, and a BA in Political Science and International Relations from the Center of Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Mexico.
 

Header image: Pasinee Pramunwong