The Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series with Edward Burtynsky and Bill McKibben: The Function of the Image within the Age of the Climate Disaster

Join us on the International Center of Photography for the launch of the autumn Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer lectures sequence that includes a dialog discussing the position of the picture within the age of the local weather disaster with world famend photographer Edward Burtynsky and environmentalist and journalist, Bill McKibben. The dialog shall be moderated by ICP Creative Director, David Campany, who additionally curated Burtynsky’s profession spanning retrospective on view at ICP via September 28, 2025.

The program shall be adopted by a e book signing with Bill McKibben for his newest publication, Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization and with Edward Burtynsky for the Steidl printed catalog that includes all 72 works from the exhibition, The Great Acceleration. Purchase your e book prematurely and discover publications associated to our exhibitions via ICP’s shop. 

About the Series

This program is being supplied each in particular person at ICP, positioned on NYC’s Lower East Side, and on-line. Current ICP college students and school of the One-Year Certificate packages are robotically enrolled and invited to attend all lectures.

The 2025-2026 Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series is made potential via beneficiant assist from the Rosenblum Family.

About the Guests

Edward Burtynsky is thought to be one of many world’s most achieved up to date photographers. His exceptional photographic depictions of world industrial landscapes characterize over 40 years of his dedication to bearing witness to the affect of people on the planet. Burtynsky’s images are included within the collections of over 80 main museums world wide. . Burtynsky’s distinctions embrace the inaugural TED Prize in 2005, which he shared with Bono and Robert Fischell; the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts; the Outreach Award on the Rencontres d’Arles; the Roloff Beny Book award and the 2018 Photo London Master of Photography Award. Burtynsky was additionally a key manufacturing determine within the award successful documentary trilogy Manufactured Landscapes (dir. Jennifer Baichwal, 2006), Watermark (dir. Baichwal and Burtynsky, 2013) and ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch (dir. Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, and Burtynsky, 2018). All three movies proceed to play in festivals world wide. Burtynsky presently holds 9 honorary doctorate levels.

Bill McKibben is the writer of greater than twenty books, together with the bestsellers The End of Nature, Falter, and Deep Economy. Founder of Third Act, a challenge organizing individuals over sixty for progressive change, he lives in Vermont together with his spouse, the author Sue Halpern.

Image: Edward Burtynsky, Salt River Pima and Maricopa Indian Community / Suburb, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, 2011