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International Center of Photography Board Elects New Trustees Renee Harbers Liddell, Bob Jeffrey, Scott Mead, and Fabian Onetti bring varied expertise and passion for photography

New York, NY (January 12, 2011) – The Board of Trustees of the International Center of Photography has elected four new Trustees: Renee Harbers Liddell, Bob Jeffrey, Scott Mead, and Fabian Onetti.

Renee Harbers Liddell is the Founder, CEO of the Harbers Family Foundation where she has brought together her passion for photography, her love of the planet and her call to philanthropy. Bob Jeffrey is the Chairman and CEO of JWT Worldwide, one of the world’s leading marketing communications brands. An avid photography enthusiast, Jeffrey has overseen the recent acquisition of a permanent collection of contemporary photography at JWT’s global headquarters in New York. The collection includes work by Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, Richard Prince and Larry Clark, among others.

Scott Mead is the Founder and Chairman of the Mead Family Foundation and is an active fine art photographer, philanthropist and financier. Fabian Onetti is a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management, overseeing a team of investment professionals who serve International investors, with a focus in Latin America.

“Renee, Bob, Scott, and Fabian each bring valuable experience and expertise, plus a passion for photography, to ICP,” said ICP Board President Jeffrey Rosen

“I am pleased to welcome the new Trustees to ICP,” said ICP Board Chair Caryl Englander. “They join a Board with a long tradition of helping ICP realize its vision for the future.”

These additions increase the ICP Board to 34 Trustees and four honorary Trustees

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Harbers Liddell is President of the Board of Ripple Effect Images, is on the Chairman's Council of Conservation International and serves as a director for the American Friends of Whistler. She is also on the Photography Selection Committee for the Whitney Museum. She retired from Microsoft in 1994.

As JWT’s CEO, Jeffrey is responsible for 200 offices and nearly 10,000 employees in more than 90 countries. He closely oversees relationships with blue-chip global clients including HSBC, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Kraft, Nestlé, Nokia, Royal Caribbean, Schick, Shell and Unilever.

In 2010, Mead’s solo exhibition Looking Back was on view at Hamiltons Gallery in and he is currently working on a commission for the Addison Gallery of American Art. He is a Trustee of the Tate Foundation and Queen’s Club, London; a member of the Tate Photography Acquisitions Committee, the Global Advisory Council of the Women’s Tennis Association Tour, the Board of Visitors of the MD Anderson Cancer Center, and the UK Advisory Board of Room to Read. He is a Charter Trustee of and sits on the Board of ’s New Look Foundation. He retired from in 2003.

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Onetti is on the Board of Directors for The Argentine-American Society of New York, which strengthens and develops economic, cultural and social ties between the peoples, communities and authorities of the Argentine republic and the .

About ICP The International Center of Photography (ICP) was founded in 1974 by Cornell Capa as an institution dedicated to photography that occupies a vital and central place in contemporary culture as it reflects and influences social change. Through our museum, school, and community programs, we embrace photography’s ability to open new opportunities for personal and aesthetic expression, transform popular culture, and continually evolve to incorporate new technologies. ICP has presented more than 500 exhibitions, bringing the work of more than 3,000 photographers and other artists to the public in one-person and group exhibitions and provided thousands of classes and workshops that have enriched tens of thousands of students. Visit www.icp.org for more information.

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