The Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series with Jerry Hsu and Tim Barber

Join us at ICP for the third installment of the spring Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer lecture series featuring photographer Jerry Hsu and curator Tim Barber. Hsu and Barber will discuss the trajectory of Hsu’s multidisciplined career, including Hsu’s work, currently featured in ICP’s exhibition, HARD COPY NEW YORK.

This program is being offered both in person at ICP, located on NYC's Lower East Side, and online. Current ICP students and faculty of the One-Year Certificate programs are automatically enrolled and invited to attend all lectures.

Past speakers of the Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Lecture series include: JEB, Philip Cheung, Donna Ferrato, Naima Green, David Alekhuogie, Keisha Scarville, Roe Ethridge, and Erin Schaff.

About the Series:

ICP is thrilled to honor Naomi Rosenblum’s contribution to the field and to further her life’s work through this lecture series. Naomi Rosenblum was one of the leading photography historians of her generation and the author of A World History of Photography and A History of Women Photographers. The 2025-2026 Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series is made possible through generous support from the Rosenblum Family. 

About the Speakers:

Tim Barber is an American photographer, curator, and publisher known for his diaristic, emotionally resonant approach to image-making. Emerging in the early 2000s, Barber became closely associated with a generation of photographers who embraced the internet as both a platform for sharing work and a subject in itself. His photographs often blur the line between documentary and personal narrative, capturing the quiet, intimate moments of everyday life. Barber is the founder of tinyvices.com (now tinyvicesarchive.com), the influential online gallery and artist platform that helped shape contemporary photography culture by showcasing emerging artists alongside established voices. Through this project, he played a pivotal role in fostering a global community of image-makers during the rise of digital networking and publishing. His own work is characterized by a poetic sensibility—sunlit interiors, candid portraits, landscapes, and fleeting encounters—rendered with warmth and immediacy. Working across personal, editorial and commercial fields, Barber’s photographs emphasize feeling over spectacle, finding depth in subtle gestures and transient light. In addition to his photographic practice, Barber has worked as a curator, publisher and educator, contributing to exhibitions, publications, and conversations about the evolving role of photography in a networked world. In 2025 he launched the bookstore and exhibition space Rectangle Room at 113 Eldridge st. in downtown New York City.

Header image by Tim Barber