- The International Center of Photography (ICP) is world's leading institution dedicated to photography/visual culture with robust social media following:
- Insta: 380k+
- Twitter: 200k+
- Facebook: 250k+
- Photos featured were presented by ICP in live exhibition at its museum from 10/2020-1/2021.
- On 3/20 ICP announced open call for imagemakers to post their COVID-19 experiences with hashtag #ICPConcerned.
- 60,000+ photos were tagged.
- Author previously published 8 books, is MD of Programs at ICP NYC, has worked with MoMA New York, Whitechapel Gallery London, Centre Pompidou, Le Bal Paris, The Photographer's Gallery London.
- He has won many awards including ICP Infinity Award, the Kraszna-Krausz Book Award, and the Royal Photographic Society Award.
- Foreword writer is ED of ICP, former Dir. of Magnum Photos. Worked with Aperture, MoMA, slate.com, and Film Forum.
- Named Innovator of the Year by American Photo Magazine in 2007.
About the author
David Campany is a curator, writer, and Managing Director of Programs at the International Center of Photography, New York. He has written nine books and over two hundred essays for monographs and museums. He regularly contributes to Frieze, Aperture, Source and Tate magazines. He has received the ICP Infinity Award, the Kraszna-Krausz Book Award, the Alice Award, a Deutscher Fotobuchpreis, and the Royal Photographic Society award for his writing.
Summary
A diary for a world-wide pandemic, #ICPConcerned captures 263 days in 2020 recorded by 820 photographers curated from over 60,000 submissions. This is the book form of an exhibition at the International Center of Photography Museum (ICP) that became a digital phenomenon in lockdown.
