The Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series Presents: Sheila Pree Bright with Joseph Rodriguez
Photographers Sheila Pree Bright and Joseph Rodriguez discuss their expansive careers and practices photographing community, including their work currently on view in ICP's exhibition We Are Here: Scenes from the Street. This program is being offered both in person at ICP, located on NYC's Lower East Side, and online. Tickets to attend the conversation in person are $5 and do not include access to ICP's galleries. Arrive early to see We Are Here before the talk!
About the Series
The Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer's Lecture Series presents one-hour live events featuring scholars and curators in conversation with renowned photographers who champion social change through photography, employ exciting alternative and emerging practices, or ask critical questions about the form. This year's Fall Season includes Maddie McGarvey with Karrin Anderson (October 21), Sheila Pree Bright with Joseph Rodriguez (November 20), Mark McKnight with Elle Perez (December 4), and Kiliii Yuyan (December 11).
Recent participants in ICP Talks include Shirin Neshat, Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., Clifford Prince King, Muriel Hasbun, Shala Miller, Sunil Gupta, Farah Al Qasimi, Guadalupe Rosales, and Pacifico Silano.
Current ICP students and faculty of the One-Year Certificate Programs are automatically enrolled and invited to attend all lectures.
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 2024-2025 Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series is made possible through generous support from the Rosenblum Family.
About the Speakers
Sheila Pree Bright is a renowned international photographic artist and the mind behind the celebrated book #1960Now: Photographs of Civil Rights Activists and Black Lives Matter Protests. Bright's expansive artworks weave deep insights into contemporary culture. Her iconic series include Plastic Bodies, Suburbia, #1960Now, Invisible Empire, Young Americans, and an evocative portrayal of the 90s Hip Hop scene. Her incredible artistry finds a spot in the compilation and exhibit "Posing Beauty in African American Culture." The 2014 documentary "Through the Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People" and the 2016 film "Election Day: Lens Across America." She has exhibited her works at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American Museum, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Saatchi Gallery in London, Harvard Art Museums, and the International Center of Photography in New York.
Bright's accomplishments are recognized in major publications, such as The Washington Post and The New York Times. Additionally, she has been honored with several nominations, commissions, and awards. Her works have found homes in esteemed collections, notably the Library of Congress, the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta and several others including The Do Good Fund.
Throughout his decades-long career, Joseph Rodríguez has sought to document the "domestic landscape of America" in his photographs. He grew up in Brooklyn, then studied photography at the School of Visual Arts. After earning a photojournalism and documentary diploma from the International Center of Photography in 1985, he began a career as a photojournalist, working for the Black Star photo agency and numerous news organizations and publications including New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, and New York Magazine.
Rodríguez has published several photobooks and pursued independent and wide-ranging projects in Puerto Rico and the United States, as well as in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Mauritius, among others. Seeking out marginalized people and communities, and often focusing on the criminal justice system, Rodríguez works in the social documentary tradition to tell stories of people in a way that foregrounds shared realities rather than differences.