This fall, SVA’s MPS Digital Photography program will celebrate the tenth anniversary of its revered i3: Ideas, Images and Inspiration lecture series with an impressive lineup of speakers and a special exhibition at NYC’s famed Photoville.

Launched in 2011 by founding chair of the MPS Digital Photography program Katrin Eismann and continued by current chair Tom P. Ashe, the i3 lecture series has historically offered free public lectures by esteemed thought leaders from across the photography industry. Over the past decade, there have been over 184 lectures by photographers, editors, gallerists, software engineers and curators, including SVA faculty member Elinor Carucci, Cig Harvey, Robert Herman, Greg Gorman, Yulia Gorbachenko, John Edwin Mason, Kira Pollack, Jerry Takigawa, and Ruddy Roye. Nearly all of these lectures are available on Vimeo and YouTube, making them a tremendous resource for photography enthusiasts, educators and students around the world.

Eismann returns to SVA as curator of this fall’s milestone slate of speakers, taking place every two weeks on Tuesdays from 7:00-8:30pm ET via Zoom. The first half of the 2021-22 schedule is below:

September 14: Jaime Permuth, documentary photographer
September 28: Marvi Lacar, documentary photographer and filmmaker
October 12: Russell Brown, Senior Creative Director at Adobe Systems
October 26: Malike Sidibe, fashion and documentary photographer
November 9: Wendel White, photographer and professor of art
November 30: Suzanne Stein, street photographer
December 14: Polly Irunga, multimedia journalist & founder of Black Women Photographers

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