Pictures of the Week, May 5th, 2015

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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:

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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

Growing Up/Mansi Bhajanka

Growing Up/Mansi Bhajanka

Growing Up/Mansi Bhajanka

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

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

Montauk End of the World/Sara Frisby

Montauk End of the World/Sara Frisby

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

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Pictures of the Week, April 19th, 2015

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First week of the final trimester at ICP. Let’s have a look at what ICP PJ students have been up to:

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Kauai/Barbara Gracner

Carroll Street/Gareth Smit

  Technicolour Afternoon/Grand Central Station/Mikael Krantz

Montauk/Mansi Bhajanka

  

Gary Douglas, U.S. Navy veteran/Kamaleon Negro (Black Chameleon), Mexican wrestler/Mr. Kasper, musician/Griselda San Martin

Esteban Kuriel

Esteban Kuriel

Kauai/Barbara Gracner

Kauai/Barbara Gracner

 

Light and Shadow/Yolande Daeninck

Times Square/Esteban Kuriel

  

Times Square/Esteban Kuriel

Shih-Chieh Wei

Montauk End of the World/Sara Frisby

Montauk End of the World/Sara Frisby

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Pictures of the Week February 9, 2015

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Back to school, back to reality. The second trimester started off with a bang as PJ students at ICP shot a variety of different themes for the weekly courses. From portraits to beautiful flying birds here are some of last week’s pictures.

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Barbara Gracner

  Yolande Daeninck

Yolande Daeninck

 
Your voice in portrait lighting with Shelby Lee Adams/Elena Hermosa

 

 

Sara Frisby

Barbara Gracner

Prospect Park/Gareth Smit

East Village Rooftop/Gareth Smit

The ICP School is accepting applications for the one-year certificate Documentary Photography and Photojournalism Program – get more information and apply online. Deadline is Friday, March 6, 2015.

Pictures of the Week February 2, 2015

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PJ students at ICP shoot a variety of different themes for the weekly courses. Many students attended January Workshops during the winter break, below are some pictures made during this time.

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Jeff Jacobson Workshop/Khadim Baluch

 

Jeff Jacobson Workshop/Sara Frisby

 

Jeff Jacobson Workshop/Sara Frisby

 

Jeff Jacobson Workshop/Khadim Baluch

 

Ines (in Vienna)/Yolande Daeninck

 

 

Priyanka Chharia

 

Barbara Gracner

 

Dan photographed during the Harvey Stein lighting workshop” /Natasha Srour

 

/Griselda San Martin

 

Shelby Lee Adams/Barbara Gracner

 

 

Grand Central portraits for Shelby Lee Adams/Soumita Bhattacharya/Khadim Baluch

 

Winter Break/ Sara Frisby

Portrait in Grand Central Station for Shelby LeeAdams/Barbara Gracner

 

California San Diago Safari/Barbara Gracner

 

  

   
Winter Break/Alexandra Madden

 

Studio Portraits with Shelby Lee Adams/Mikael Krantz

 

  Studio Portraits with Shelby Lee Adams/Elena Hermosa/Gareth Smit

 

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Pictures of the Week November 14, 2014

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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.

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Growing up in NYC/Barbara Gracner
 

Harlem/Yolande Daeninck
 

Jamaal painting in his studio/Narisa Ladak
 

Subway/Elena Hermosa
 

 

Subway/Shih-Chieh Wei
 

Subway/Fabiana Sala
 

Subway/Elena Hermosa
 

Beauty and the beast (waiting for the subway doors to close)/Narisa Ladak
 

Subway/Elena Hermosa
 

 

Subway/Sara Frisby
 

Compartmentalized/Narisa Ladak
 

Subway/Sophia Guida
 

 

Subway/David Steinberg
 

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Pictures of the Week November 7, 2014

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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.

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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

 

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Why ICP?

Statue of Liberty, on Liberty Island in New York, as seen from Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Last night, I took a call from a woman in California who had been accepted to the International Center of Photography. She was trying to decide whether she should go for it. She asked me, “is it worth it?”

I was in her position exactly one year ago to the day. It was April 12th, 2010, my birthday. At 8am I went to my government job and gave my two-weeks notice. That afternoon, I returned home to the letter from the ICP accepting my application for the 2010-2011 school year. In the evening we had a birthday BBQ in the backyard.

Until that day, the prospect of moving had been mostly theoretical. It was suddenly real. The tuition alone was a lot of money. Moving cities is hard. And I’d have to stop working for a year, too. It was a big choice. Some people said I should take my money and travel the world. Others questioned why I would want to move from Ottawa at all (although they were very few, and only halfheartedly asked). Most people, though, told me to go, if this was what I really wanted. The decision was complicated by having already been to photography school, not that long ago. I graduated from Algonquin College in 2007 with a diploma in commercial photography. It was a good school, highly technical, and demanding. But I always wanted more. I wanted more from life, more from my city. Most of all, I wanted more from myself.

Midtown Manhattan as seen from the Pulaski Bridge between Brooklyn and Queens, New York

I said yes. I accepted because I wanted to grow, to move up a level, to be truly tested. I wanted to train with the best, to learn how to tell stories from the leaders in photojournalism and documentary photography. In some ways, it was an easy choice. ICP was the only place I had applied and the only place really wanted to go. I said yes to myself.

Life isn’t easy here. School is definitely not easy. There is a lot I miss about my life back home. I miss my family. But, for all the homesickness and frustration of living in New York, it has been worth it so far.

This year is a gift. It is a dream. It is an incredible privilege to spend a year completely focused on my craft. It is amazing to be surrounded by smart and engaged students. The teachers at ICP who I’ve connected with have made an impact on me that will resonate for the rest of my life. ICP was the push I needed, and the push I didn’t know I needed. I’ve grown as an artist and a human. I’ve really jumped off the deep end.

There are ten weeks left in the school year. I want this freedom to go on forever.

This post was originally published at Being There by Jackson Couse.

where do you stand

From Jeff Jacobson’s Where Do You Stand workshop.

Stand Here

yep, I know where I stand.