On behalf of the International Center of Photography, we invite you to join us on June 17th, 2025 at 7:00 PM EST to celebrate the opening of our summer exhibitions The Great Acceleration and Panjereh.
June 17, 7–8:30 PM
International Center of Photography
84 Ludlow Street
New York, NY 10002
Kindly RSVP by June 13
ABOUT THE EXHIBITIONS
Edward Burtynsky: The Great Acceleration
The Great Acceleration, the first solo institutional exhibition of world-renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky’s work in New York City in over twenty years, reveals the depth of his investigation into the human alteration of natural landscapes, showing their present fragility and enduring beauty. Curated by David Campany, Creative Director at ICP, this retrospective will present over seventy photographs, including many landmark images—some never previously shown—alongside three ultra high-resolution murals and a visual and narrative timeline of Burtynsky’s creative life. Scheduled to run through Climate Week NYC in September 2025, the exhibition serves as both an urgent call for action and an opportunity to appreciate the remaining sublimity of the landscape, deepening our understanding of current environmental challenges while upholding ICP’s commitment to concerned photography. "The Great Acceleration" refers to the rapid rise of human impact on the planet—through population growth, water usage, transportation, emissions, extraction, and food production—all subjects Burtynsky has documented in great detail over forty years. From North American mines to Azerbaijani oil derricks, Chinese rice terraces to Nigerian bunkering, Burtynsky’s work reflects his relentless drive to capture how human activity has transformed the Earth, with each project—though distinct—unified by formal beauty and fundamentally interconnected in theme.
Sheida Soleimani: Panjereh
The International Center of Photography (ICP) is proud to present Panjereh, an exhibition by Iranian-American artist Sheida Soleimani. Panjereh—which means ‘window’ or ‘passageway’ in Farsi—builds on Soleimani’s ongoing Ghostwriter series, in which she explores her parents’ experiences of political exile and migration as a lens to examine broader systems of geopolitics. Known for her intricate, studio-based compositions that combine photographs, props, live animals and even her own parents in surreal, magical realist scenes, Soleimani expands her practice in Panjereh with the debut of a new body of work featuring injured birds. These images draw from her work as a wildlife rehabilitator and founder of Congress of the Birds, a federally licensed wild bird rehabilitation center in Rhode Island. The exhibition will also include a new site-specific wall drawing created specifically for ICP’s galleries. Curated by Elisabeth Sherman, guest curator, the exhibition will bring together more than forty photographs, the vast majority of which have never before been shown in New York.
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The exhibition Edward Burtynsky: The Great Acceleration is generously supported by Jane and Raphael Bernstein, Canada Life, Power Sustainable, Taittinger, Gail O’Brien, and the ICP Exhibitions Committee. We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
The exhibition Sheida Soleimani: Panjereh is generously supported by ICP Exhibitions Committee members - Luana Alesio, Deborah Brown, Romy Cohen, Marguerite Gelfman, Vasant Nayak, Elizabeth Rea, Benita Sakin, Magali Smith, Helena Sokoloff, and Richard Stern.
Exhibitions at ICP are supported, in part, by Caryl Englander, Almudena Legorreta, ICP Board of Trustees, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, and the Shubert Foundation, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Image: © Edward Burtynsky, Shipyard #19, Qili Port, Zhejiang Province, China, 2005