Register as a participant to reserve a spot for the chance to share your images and tell your story with ICP's audience here. Registering in advance is strongly recommended.
Join us for the premiere of a new programming series: ICP PhotoSLAM. During this fast-paced, open mic event, the ICP community and audience members are invited to compete in a live story telling competition driven by photographs.
Come to join the program or to enjoy the stories as part of the audience judging panel! The host for the inaugural PhotoSLAM is Idris Talib Solomon.
The winning photography story will receive an ICP beanie and will be invited back to participate in the ICP Photo Grand Slam in the spring.
The theme for the first ICP PhotoSLAM is Hauntings.
How It Works
ICP PhotoSLAM will take place on the second floor, in the library.
6:30–6:50 PM
Want to tell your story based on the theme Hauntings? Arrive within the submission time to enter your name for a chance to take the stage that evening. Come prepared to digitally share the images you will use in your story, if selected. ICP recommends preparing 8-15 images on a USB drive and/or on a file-sharing digital link.
6:50 PM
Six names will be blindly selected. If selected, each photographer must have their images ready to share via a digital link or USB drive immediately. Failure to produce your images will result in loss of your time-slot.
7:00 PM
The competition begins! Each selected storyteller will take the stage for exactly 5 minutes.
After each performance the audience will vote in teams. At the end of the evening, a winner will be crowned.
Community Guidelines
ICP does not control the content or know what stories will be shared on stage ahead of the event.
All participants will be asked to sign a community agreement prior to taking the stage. If in violation of our community guidelines, performers will be stopped and disqualified.
Viewer discretion is advised.
Tips for Photo Storytellers
There will be a short amount of time to digitally transfer images to the program laptop. For upload time purposes, we suggest preparing 8-15 images to use with your story.
Please have a link you can share via email or bring your images on an USB drive or an external drive.
Images will be uploaded to ICP’s computer and will be projected behind the storyteller during their 5-minute slot.
The photographs will be projected during the stories and a clicker will be given to the storyteller to advance each image. We cannot guarantee the ability to set images to change automatically.
About the Host
Idris Talib Solomon focuses on stories that are overlooked and lack proper representation within the African American community. He photographs dancers and gymnasts in Harlem, funeral homes in East New York, muralists in Bushwick, Black cowboys in Houston, athletes and eco challenges in Fiji, 80mph racing drones in France, unit stills for television and movies. He photographs his wife and son. Idris is the Creative Director and host of The Black Shutter Podcast.
