In this inaugural session of ICP Talks: Lessons and Insights in Photography, join TIS Books co-founder Nelson Chan for a series of lectures on producing a photobook with guests Janet Delaney, Kris Graves and Darin Mickey. From crafting unique experiences and objects through the photobook form, to navigating design and publishing on large and small scales, join us for a series of three one-hour lectures with key voices currently leading the dialogue around photobooks.
All lectures are scheduled to take place from 1 to 2 PM EST. Tickets are $35 for general audience and $30 for ICP members and give access to the three-part series.
Schedule
Photobook as Art Object with Janet Delaney
Wednesday, May 13, 1–2 PM
Publishing for Everyone with Kris Graves
Thursday, May 14, 1–2 PM
The Artist as Publisher with Darin Mickey, Chair of ICP’s One-Year Certificate Program in Creative Practices
Friday, May 15, 1–2 PM
How to Join the Virtual Program
This program will take place on Zoom. Those who register to attend will receive an email with a link to join the lecture through a computer or mobile device prior to the program start time. We recommend you add programs@icp.org to your email contacts to ensure delivery of the Zoom link.
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About the Series
ICP Talks: Lessons and Insights in Photography is a new online education program series presented by the International Center of Photography. Each three-part session invites leading photographers and educators to present work and ideas that excite and instruct on navigating all facets of the photographic community. Through lectures, conversations, interviews, workshops, and book launches, ICP Talks allows ICP's worldwide following to learn together, stay connected, and get inspired.
Speakers
Nelson Chan was born in New Jersey to immigrant parents from Hong Kong and Taiwan and has spent most of his life between the States and Hong Kong. Having grown up on two continents with unique cultures, this immigrant experience has influenced the majority of his work.
Chan is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, where he received his BFA and a graduate of the University of Hartford, Hartford Art School, where he received his MFA. He has been exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions such as the Museum of Chinese in America, New York, NY; Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA; The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA; Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany; and 798 Space, Beijing, China. His books are collected in the institutional libraries of the Harry Ransom Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Modern Art.
Book publishing is a primary focus of Chan’s studio practice. He is a co-founder of TIS books, where they have published titles by Justine Kurland, Rose Marie Cromwell, and Raymond Meeks. From 2016 to 2019 he was the production manager of Aperture Foundation, where he made monographs with artists such as Deana Lawson, Hank Willis Thomas, Stephen Shore, and Sally Mann, among others. Most recently, Chan moved to the Bay Area to take up an appointment as an assistant professor of photography at the California College of the Arts.
Janet Delaney’s photographic work focuses on the untold stories of cities in transition. Her first project bore witness to the 1980s gentrification of a working-class neighborhood in San Francisco and was published as South of Market (MACK, 2013). In Public Matters (MACK, 2018), Delaney documented daily life as it unfolded alongside protests and parades in Reagan-era San Francisco. She is currently completing SoMA Now, a record of San Francisco’s rapid evolution into an international center of technology and all of the consequences these new riches have wrought. Both honest and poetic, her approach straddles the line between documentary and fine art.
Delaney in a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow and has received numerous awards, including three National Endowment for the Arts grants. Her photographs are in collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the de Young Museum, the Pilara Foundation, and the Smithsonian Museum, among others. She has shown her photographs nationally and internationally and is represented by Euqinom Gallery in San Francisco, California.
Delaney received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1981. She has taught widely and held a faculty position at the University of California, Berkeley for 15 years.
Kris Graves (b. 1982 New York, NY) is an artist and publisher based in New York and London. He received his BFA in Visual Arts from SUNY Purchase College and has been published and exhibited globally, including the National Portrait Gallery in London, England; Aperture Gallery, New York; University of Arizona, Tucson; among others. Permanent collections include the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Brooklyn Museum, New York; and the Wedge Collection, Toronto.
Graves sits on the board of Blue Sky Gallery: Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland; and the Architectural League of New York as vice president of photography. He creates artwork that deals with what he views wrong with American society and aims to use art as a means to inform people about social issues. Graves also works to elevate the representation of people of color in the fine art canon, and to create opportunities for conversation about race, representation, and urban life. Graves creates photographs of landscapes and people to preserve memory. He is the founder of Kris Graves Project.
Darin Mickey, chair of the International Center of Photography’s One-Year Certificate Program in Creative Practices, is a New York–based photographer. He is the author of Death Takes a Holiday (J&L Books) and Stuff I Gotta Remember Not To Forget (J&L Books). His work has appeared in numerous publications including; Aperture, the New York Times Magazine, Vice, the Washington Post Magazine, I.D., FOAM, and Doubletake, among others. He has exhibited work in both solo and group exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Detroit, Cleveland, Copenhagen, Sydney, and Tokyo, and is included in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art Watson Library Collection, Museum of Modern Art Library Collection, the Museum of the City of New York, Museo d’Arte Contemporenea di Roma, and others. Mickey has been teaching at the International Center of Photography since 2001 and the Cooper Union since 2004.
KGP deals with issues of race, policy, social awareness, feminism, culture, and wealth. We collaborate with artists to create limited edition publications and archival prints, focusing on contemporary photography and works on paper. We focus our publishing efforts on stories that empower the long forgotten and underrepresented.