
ICP alums Ana Rosa Marx (CP '24), Anh Nguyen (DOC '24), Camille Farrah Lenain (DOC '21), and Naima Green (Bard MFA '18) were selected as recipients of Google's 2024 Creator Labs Photo Fund. In it's third year, the fund provides grants and Google Pixel devices to thirty photo and lens-based artists ever year in partnership with Aperture.
Ana Rosa Marx In her series Aphrodite, Ana Rosa Marx creates a liminal spaces between fiction and reality where queer cruising takes place in the seats of a small cinema. Marx started this project during her time in ICP's One-Year Certificate Program. In Shared Spaces, a group exhibition of work by recent alumni, Marx installed two theater seats and a slideshow of the images she made for the project to emulate the experience of attending a showing at a cinema.
Anh Nguyen's project, The Kitchen God Series, is an exploration of a Vietnamese myth taken out of it's original context and placed in New York City apartments. During her time in ICP's One-Year-Certificate program, Nguyen began making these images in the kitchens of young Vietnamese people across the city. Since graduating from the program, Nguyen's work has been featured in the art publication It's Nice That and made into a zine.
Made of Smokeless Fires is a long-term project by Camille Farrah Lenain, a French Algerian photographer, illuminating the experience of queer muslims. In her work, Farrah Lenain addresses visibility and silencing as both potentially endangering experiences to queer people. Farrah Lenain completed ICP's DOC program remotely in 2021 and has been featured in magazines like i-D and Dazed for her documentary photography work.
Naima Green's I Keep Missing My Water looks to water as symbolism for the fluidity of the queer experience. Thinking about water across locations and sources, Green's work addresses this flow between modes of access. In 2022, this project was presented as an exhibition at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. Green completed ICP's Master of Fine Arts program in partnership with Bard College, which held it's last program year in 2020.
To learn more about the recipients and their projects, visit Aperture's website.
Image: Anh Nguyen.
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