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ICPPJ Picture of the Year 2015

With sadness, trepidation and excitement this is the last ICP PJ blog for the 2015 year. On Friday night we shared a beautiful opening at ICP with hundreds of guests visiting our final Show. Sunday was graduation, and the last two days have been frantic last minute printing and prep for tomorrow’s portfolio reviews.

For this last post, I asked PJ students to submit not the best picture they made this year, but the one that they connected with the most. For some it may be the image that helped them kickstart their project, or an image of a subject with whom they formed a special bond. For others, perhaps, it is a frame that takes them back to a moment when things “clicked” (no pun intended…okay, pun intended), and when it all started coming together.

It has been a most wonderful, challenging and exhilarating year. Thank you to all those around the world who have supported us this year, it has meant the world to us and we could not have done it without you. But most especially thank you to each student who lived this year in New York as a photographer. We did it together, and we shall keep doing it together. After all, there’s no turning back now.

– G

01_Meadowmere_22 — Meadowmere.
Picture: Natasha Srour

New York 150417 Almost a year after the death of Eric Garner, a small group of protestors led by his family members meet occasionally to demonstrate against police brutality and in demand for justice. Picture: Gareth Smit — This was my “jump picture”. It was the picture that opened the doors and helped me conceptualise an approach to photographing my project about Tompkinsville, the community in which Eric Garner was killed by police almost a year ago. It was the picture that helped me learn that photographs are about more than what is actually happening. They rise above mere facts, and communicate – for very good reasons – in a way that is difficult to put into words.
Picture: Gareth Smit

A woman waits for the the ferry in the Paulus Hook Station, in Jersey City, on Oct. 3, 2014.
Picture: Beatriz Arango

04_Elise_150301_0110 — Picture: Elise Jacob

A Survivor of Many Things
Picture: Sophia Guida

06_Mikael_Street1 — Street Portrait.
Picture: Mikael Krantz

07_Hermosa_Elena — Picture: Elena Hermosa

I took this image the first day I met Ashley, and somehow I still feel it represents the core feeling of the project. She is allowing herself to be seen, but remains so very guarded, with clenched fists. Just a few weeks before this photo was taken she had come out as openly transgender to her friends and family. Two self portraits of her as a boy is on the wall behind her.
Picture: Moth Dust

09_Ronnie-The_Beauty_Of_Will_Barbara_Gracner — Ronnie – The Beauty of Will
Picture: Barbara Gracner

Jack Danielak, born in Lublin, Poland, in Schaller and Weber Meat Market, March, 2015, New York City.
Picture: Miguel Winograd

©2015 Esteban Kuriel — Poppa and Daddy.
Picture: Esteban Kuriel

Helen, who turned 100 on June 1, is one of the people I connected with most this year, as I worked on my project "Alive and Amazing" about elderly women born before 1930 who live alone in NYC — Helen, who turned 100 on June 1, is one of the people I connected with most this year, as I worked on my project “Alive and Amazing” about elderly women born before 1930 who live alone in NYC.
Picture: Yolande Daeninck

After working, KoKo and Ken enjoy their moment in KoKo's balcony, Manhattan, New York. May 13, 2015. — After working, KoKo and Ken enjoy their moment in KoKo’s balcony, Manhattan, New York. May 13, 2015.
Picture: Shih-Chieh Wei

IMG_9734 (1) — The family at the ICP full-time show opening that Mansi Bhajanka documented for her project “Dale and Juliette”.
Picture: Mansi Bhajanka

Hex_1` 010 — ICP PJ student, Sara Frisby with Mikey Mike, a fishermen she photographed during her project “Montauk: End of the World”.
Picture: Akshay Bhoan

treeoflife 009 — Transience.
Picture: Alexandra Madden

BC_DKS_51515 018 — Picture: David Steinberg

Processed with VSCOcam with f2 preset — The ICP PJ 2015 Class at graduation on June 21st.
Picture: Jacobia Dahm

Pictures of the Week, May 27th, 2015

Memorial Weekend,school was closed for the day and PJ students are frantically working to complete their preparations for the final show that opens June 19th. More info: http://www.icp.org/exhibitions/one-year-certificate-programs-2015-student-exhibition

Boxes/Barbara Gracner

Time Running Out – Helen/Yolande Daeninck

Time Running Out – Ursula/Yolande Daeninck

Montauk End of the World/Sara Frisby

Dance Parade DanceFest 2015,Tompkins Square Park/Shih-Chieh Wei

Mansi Bhajanka

Leaving Staten Island/Gareth Smit

Pictures of the Week, May 5th, 2015

The show submissions are in, and PJ students have had a few sleepless nights thinking about matte boards, calculating proportions for frames, and arguing with photoshop templates. Here’s a look at what PJ students have been up to this week:

A protestor is arrested at the May Day march near Union Square. Many were marching in solidarity with demonstrations in Baltimore calling for police officers to be held accountable for the death of Freddie Gray in custody/Gareth Smit

Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan won the 11th congressional district during a special election on May 5th, 2015. As Richmond county DA, Donovan was the prosecutor in the case that saw a grand-jury decide not to indict NYPD officer Dan Pantaleo for the death of Eric Garner/Gareth Smit

Double exposures form sillouettes of Times Square/Elena Hermosa

Growing Up/Mansi Bhajanka

Mobile office, musician, Bryant Park/Shih-Chei Wei

Malan Breton’s film ” A Journey To Taiwan” shows in New York City international film festival 2015. The woman’s dress designed by Malan/Shih-Chei Wei

Montauk End of the World/Sara Frisby

Time running out-Helen/Yolande Daeninck

Time running out-Ursula/Yolande Daeninck

Spring time in Central Park/Yolande Daeninck

Pictures of the Week November 7, 2014

PJ students at ICP shoot a variety of different themes for the weekly “Picture Making on the Street” course. This course has students submit a selection of images every week for a group critique lead by each respective instructor.

Halloween in NYC/Barbara Gracner

New York City’s Religions/Elena Hermosa

Subway/Moth Dust

New York City’s Religions/Andrea Cattaneo

New York City’s Religions/David Steinberg

New York City’s Religions/Elena Hermosa

New York City’s Religions/Moth Dust

New York City’s Religions/Beatriz Arango Garcia

New York City’s Religions/Sara Frisby

La Rumba/Sara Frisby

Subway/Shih-Chieh Wei

Subway/Andrea Cattaneo

Subway/Shih-Chieh Wei

Halloween/Yolande Daeninck

Parkour on Staten Island/Gareth Smit

Author garethsmit1Posted on November 7, 2014Categories Pictures of the WeekTags Brooklyn, canada, documentary photography, Memory, New York, parkour, photography, photojournalist, portrait, Staten Island, stephen ferry, subway, where do you standLeave a comment on Pictures of the Week November 7, 2014

Abandoned Seaview Hospital on Staten Island, once the largest and most expensive tuberculosis sanatorium in the country. Desolate and decrepit.
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And I thought of all the frivolous things we’ll leave behind when we pass away, the objects we’ve accumulated over a lifetime of living, covered in our fingerprints, endowed with meaning because they belonged to us…

And I thought of how the sun is still rising in our young lives, how we are all slowly growing into our skins and the horizon for our potential seems utterly limitless…

And I thought of how in our intimate circle of friends, we have yet to confront tragedy…the tragedy of the sort that’s a tectonic shift in our universe: illness, divorce, death…

What soon will come. How blessed we are to be young and among the living.

Author Pete PinPosted on January 25, 2011Categories UncategorizedTags abandoned, Memory, Staten Island2 Comments on