El Centro Internacional de Fotografía ( o ICP) es una escuela de fotografía, un museo y un centro de investigación fotográfica situado en Midtown Manhattan, en la ciudad de Nueva York. Se creó en 1974 y es la institución encargada, desde 1985, de otorgar los premios de fotografía Infinity Awards.
Trayectoria Cornell Capa fundó el centro en la Museum Mile (Milla de los museos), zona de la quinta avenida neoyorquina así denominada porque allí se concentran una decena de museos. Desde 1974 se han realizado más de quinientas exposiciones en el mismo y se ha presentado el trabajo de unos 3000 fotógrafos y de otros artistas. El origen del centro surge ante la necesidad de preservar la fotografía de reportaje y especialmente el trabajo de su hermano Robert Capa y de fotógrafos como Werner Bischof, David Seymour, André Kertész, Leonard Freed y Dan Weiner. En consecuencia, en 1966 creó una fundación, llamada Fund for Concerned Photography, con este fin y ocho años después se creó su sede.
En 1985 se creó una subsede en Midtown Manhattan y en 1999 se vendió la sede de la quinta avenida abriéndose la actual en el 2000. De este modo se pudo disponer de unas instalaciones más adaptadas a las tareas educativas y a su función como museo. La escuela tiene unos 5.000 alumnos cada año ofreciendo clase de unas 400 asignaturas para obtener diversos máster, certificados y grados especializados. También dispone de una biblioteca especializada en fotografía de gran calidad y realiza publicaciones sobre estos temas de artes visuales.
Como museo dispone de una importante colección de fotografías de Weegee, Roman Vishniac y Robert y Cornell Capa, así como de otros fotógrafos: W. Eugene Smith, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Lisette Model, Gordon Parks, James VanDerZee, Garry Winogrand, Carrie Mae Weems, Justine Kurland, Katy Grannan, Vik Muniz, Tomoko Sawada o Susan Meiselas.
Infinity Awards El International Center of Photography (ICP) organiza anualmente los Infinity Awards, un programa de premios establecido en 1985 para reconocer trayectorias y aportes en fotografía y áreas relacionadas (como fotoperiodismo, artes visuales, medios y edición), así como para distinguir a profesionales emergentes; las categorías y sus denominaciones han variado con el tiempo. La ceremonia funciona asimismo como el principal evento benéfico anual del ICP. Tras una ceremonia virtual realizada en mayo de 2020, la gala volvió a celebrarse de forma presencial en abril de 2022.
Galardonados La siguiente relación se organiza por año; la denominación de cada premio respeta la categoría empleada por ICP en la edición correspondiente.
2025 Lifetime Achievement Award: Susan Meiselas Contemporary Photography & New Media: Lebohang Kganye Editorial & Commercial Photography: Jack Davison Documentary Practice & Photojournalism: Samar Abu Elouf, Nanna Heitmann y Ziv Koren Special Recognition Award: Aldo Fallai
2024 Trustees Award: Caryl S. Englander Lifetime Achievement: Shirin Neshat Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism: Lynsey Addario Contemporary Photography and New Media: Wendy Red Star Commercial and Editorial Photography: Renell Medrano
2023 Trustees: Joyce Cowin Lifetime Achievement: Ming Smith Contemporary Photography and New Media: Poulomi Basu Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism: Zora J Murff Critical Writing, Research, and Theory: Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
2022 Lifetime Achievement: Sebastião Salgado Trustees: Gabriela Hearst Art: Sky Hopinka Emerging Photographer: Esther Horvath Documentary Practice and Photojournalism: Acacia Johnson
2020 Lifetime Achievement: Don McCullin Online Platform and New Media: The 1619 Project (The New York Times Magazine) Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism: Hannah Reyes Morales Applied: Nadine Ijewere
2019 Lifetime Achievement: Rosalind Fox Solomon Art: Dawoud Bey Critical Writing and Research: Zadie Smith, «Deana Lawson’s Kingdom of Restored Glory» (The New Yorker) Emerging Photographer: Jess T. Dugan Special Presentation: Shahidul Alam
2018 Lifetime Achievement: Bruce Davidson Applied: Alexandra Bell Art: Samuel Fosso Artist's Book: Dayanita Singh, Museum Bhavan Critical Writing and Research: Maurice Berger, «Race Stories» (columna en la sección Lens de The New York Times) Documentary and Photojournalism: Amber Bracken Emerging Photographer: Natalie Keyssar Online Platform and New Media: Women Photograph Special Presentation: Juergen Teller Trustees Award: Thomson Reuters
2017 Lifetime Achievement: Harry Benson Art: Sophie Calle Documentary and Photojournalism: Edmund Clark y Crofton Black, Negative Publicity Artist's Book: Michael Christopher Brown, Libyan Sugar Critical Writing and Research: Michael Famighetti y Sarah Lewis por «Vision & Justice», Aperture (n.º 223, verano de 2016) Online Platform and New Media: For Freedoms Emerging Photographer: Vasantha Yogananthan
2016 Lifetime Achievement: David Bailey Art: Walid Raad Trustee Award: Artur Walther, The Walther Collection Documentary and Photojournalism: Zanele Muholi Artist's Book: Matthew Connors, Fire in Cairo Critical Writing and Research: Susan Schuppli Online Platform and New Media: Jonathan Harris y Gregor Hochmuth por Network Effect
2015 Cornell Capa Lifetime Achievement: Graciela Iturbide Art: Larry Fink Trustee Award: The Lean In Collection (Getty Images) Photojournalism: Tomas van Houtryve Publication: LaToya Ruby Frazier, The Notion of Family New Media: Question Bridge: Black Males Young Photographer: Evgenia Arbugaeva Special Presentation: Mario Testino
2014 Cornell Capa Lifetime Achievement: Jürgen Schadeberg Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Steven Klein Art: James Welling Photojournalism: Stephanie Sinclair y Jessica Dimmock Publication: Adam Broomberg y Oliver Chanarin, Holy Bible Young Photographer: Samuel James
2013 Cornell Capa Lifetime Achievement: David Goldblatt Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Erik Madigan Heck Art: Mishka Henner Trustee Award: Pat Schoenfeld Photojournalism: David Guttenfelder Publication: Cristina de Middel, The Afronauts Young Photographer: Kitra Cahana Special Presentation: Jeff Bridges
2012 Lifetime Achievement: Daidō Moriyama Cornell Capa Award: Ai Weiwei Trustee Award: John «Launny» Steffens Young Photographer: Anouk Kruithof Writing: David Campany Art: Stan Douglas Publication: The Worker-Photography Movement 1926–1939 (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía) Photojournalism: Benjamin Lowy Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Maurice Scheltens y Liesbeth Abbenes
2011 Lifetime Achievement: Elliott Erwitt Cornell Capa Award: Ruth Gruber Trustee Award: The Durst Family Young Photographer: Peter van Agtmael Publication: Alec Soth, From Here to There: Alec Soth’s America Writing: Gerry Badger Art: Abelardo Morell Photojournalism: Adrees Latif Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Viviane Sassen
2010 Cornell Capa Award: Peter Magubane Lifetime Achievement: John G. Morris Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Daniele Tamagni Art: Lorna Simpson Trustee Award: Gilbert C. Maurer Photojournalism: Reza Publication: Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans'' Writing: Luc Sante Young Photographer: Raphaël Dallaporta
2009 Cornell Capa Award: Letizia Battaglia Lifetime Achievement: Annie Leibovitz Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Tim Walker Art: Rinko Kawauchi Trustee Award: Gayle G. Greenhill Photojournalism: Geert van Kesteren Publication: Aglaia Konrad, Desert Cities Writing: Aveek Sen Young Photographer: Lieko Shiga
2008 Lifetime Achievement: Malick Sidibé Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Craig McDean Art: Edward Burtynsky Trustee Award: Diane Keaton Photojournalism: Anthony Suau Publication: Taryn Simon, An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar Writing: Bill Jay Young Photographer: Mikhael Subotzky
2007 Cornell Capa Award: Milton Rogovin Lifetime Achievement: William Klein Art: Tracey Moffatt Trustee Award: Karl Lagerfeld Publication: Tendance Floue, Sommes-Nous? Writing: David Levi Strauss Young Photographer: Ryan McGinley
2006 Cornell Capa Award: Don McCullin Lifetime Achievement: Lee Friedlander Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Steven Meisel Art: Thomas Ruff Trustee Award: Getty Images Photojournalism: Yuri Kozyrev Publication: Things As They Are: Photojournalism in Context Since 1955 (Mary Panzer y Christian Caujolle) Writing: Geoff Dyer Young Photographer: Ahmet Polat 2005 Cornell Capa Award: Susan Meiselas Lifetime Achievement: Bruce Weber Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Deborah Turbeville Art: Loretta Lux Photojournalism: The New Yorker Publication: Lodz Ghetto Album: Photographs by Henryk Ross Writing: Vince Aletti Young Photographer: Tomás Munita 2004 Cornell Capa Award: Josef Koudelka Lifetime Achievement: William Eggleston Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Alison Jackson Art: Fiona Tan Photojournalism: Simon Norfolk Publication: Diane Arbus: Revelations (Doon Arbus y Elisabeth Sussman) Writing: Susan Sontag Young Photographer: Tomoko Sawada 2003 Cornell Capa Award: Marc Riboud Lifetime Achievement: Bernd y Hilla Becher Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Thái Công Art: Zarina Bhimji Photojournalism: Alex Majoli Publication: Hide That Can (Deirdre O'Callaghan) Writing: Sara Stevenson Young Photographer: Jonas Bendiksen 2002 Cornell Capa Award: Here Is New York: A Democracy of Photographs Lifetime Achievement: Michael E. Hoffman / Aperture Foundation Applied/Fashion/Advertising: RJ Muna Art: Shirin Neshat Photojournalism: Tyler Hicks Publication: Kiosk: A History of Photojournalism (Robert Lebeck y Bodo von Dewitz) Writing: Ariella Azoulay Young Photographer: Lynsey Addario 2001 Cornell Capa Award: Mary Ellen Mark Lifetime Achievement: Roger Thérond Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Philip-Lorca diCorcia Art: Andreas Gursky Photojournalism: Luc Delahaye Publication: Unclassified: A Walker Evans Anthology (Jeff L. Rosenheim y Douglas Eklund) Writing: Eugenia Parry Young Photographer: Elinor Carucci 2000 Cornell Capa Award: Robert Frank Lifetime Achievement: Nathan Lyons Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Hubble Heritage Project Art: Adam Fuss Photojournalism: James Nachtwey Publication: Sumo (Helmut Newton; Taschen) Writing: Andy Grundberg Young Photographer: Zach Gold 1999 Master of Photography: Arnold Newman Lifetime Achievement: Harold Evans Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Julius Shulman Art: Hiroshi Sugimoto Design: Bart Houtman y Guido van Lier Photojournalism: Alexandra Boulat Publication: Charles Bowden, Juárez: The Laboratory of Our Future Writing: John Morris Young Photographer: Nicolai Fuglsig 1998 Master of Photography: Roy DeCarava Lifetime Achievement: Naomi Rosenblum y Walter Rosenblum Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Inez van Lamsweerde y Vinoodh Matadin Art: Sigmar Polke Design: J. Abbott Miller Photojournalism: Steve Hart Publication: Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina (Horst Faas y Tim Page, eds.) Writing: Robert Coles Young Photographer: Michael Ackerman 1997 Master of Photography: Helen Levitt Lifetime Achievement: Robert Delpire Applied/Fashion/Advertising: David LaChapelle Art: Christian Boltanski Design: Chip Kidd Photojournalism: Mary Ellen Mark Publication: The Killing Fields (Chris Riley y Douglas Niven, eds.) Writing: Vicki Goldberg Young Photographer: Lauren Greenfield 1996 Master of Photography: Horst P. Horst Lifetime Achievement: Cornell Capa Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Wolfgang Volz Art: Annette Messager Design: Markus Rasp Photojournalism: Lise Sarfati Publication: Gilles Peress, The Silence Writing: A. D. Coleman Young Photographer: Eva Leitolf
1995 Master of Photography: Eve Arnold Lifetime Achievement: John Szarkowski Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Josef Astor Art: Clarissa Sligh Design: Yolanda Cuomo Photojournalism: Gilles Peress