This session of Cameras & Coffee will be hosted by Cafecito, founded by Nicole Motta. Join us for Junk Edits with Cafecito featuring photographer and set designer Sarai Garcia for a 90-minute creative session where coffee, community, and collage meet. Transform everyday materials into personal visual narratives—"junk journals"— while connecting with fellow image-makers.
RSVPS for the Junk Journal Activity hosted by Cafecito are currently at capacity. Those wishing to participate are welcome to join the stand by line in person on the day of the event.Connect with ICP's community during our monthly Cameras and Coffee social meet-up for photographers, collectors, and camera enthusiasts! During the event, grab a Deadbeat Club coffee and pastries, available in the ICP café.
What to Bring:
Yourself!
Optional: Favorite collage materials (magazines, ephemera, photographs)
Optional: Your journal (or we'll provide paper)
Featured Artist: Sarai Garcia is a Gen-Z Dominican-American photographer and set designer from Queens, NY, whose lens creates moments for people to see themselves in a new light.
About Cafecito
Cafecito is Fresh Mercado's creative programming and consultancy initiative, offering 1:1 sessions and community events for visual practitioners, makers, and innovators. Through personalized conversations and partnerships, it provides industry guidance, portfolio development, creative direction, and professional resources.
Sarai Garcia is a Gen-Z Dominican-American photographer and multimedia artist from Queens, NY. Through her lens and mixed-media practice, she reframes identity and self-perception, creating space for people to see themselves in a new light. Embracing experimentation, she blends photography, collage, and journaling to explore the unseen and the in-between. Her workshops encourage loosening up, letting go of perfection, and using creative play to uncover different parts of the self.
Nicole Motta (she/her/hers) is a Creative Director based in NYC with over 9+ years of experience in art direction and creative production in the photo, design, tech, music, and publishing industries. She is a visual innovator and practioner focusing on photo, design, AI, visual culture & trends, emerging media, and their intersectionality. She pushes the boundaries of visual literacy by amplifying voices for visual creatives in photo, film, illustration & visual design through Cafecito through Fresh Mercado.
Cameras and Coffee is held at ICP the second Saturday of each month.
Special thanks to MPB for the generous public programs support. MPB transforms the way that people buy, sell and trade in photo and video kit.
