Come Find Your CommunityFUJIKINA NYC 2026 is a three-day photography festival that celebrates the rich history and future of photography, marking the 200th anniversary of the art form. Anchored at ICP, and with eight walkable venues across the Lower East Side, FUJIKINA invites attendees to choose their own adventure, with exhibitions, workshops, keynotes, gallery tours, photowalks, and more—all within a five- to eight-minute walk of one another. Fujikina Tickets: For tickets and to learn more about all programs taking place throughout the festival, click here.ICP members receive free access to Fujikina. Please email [email protected] to receive your discount code. Fujikina at ICP Friday, October 16, 2026 +11:00 AMICP GalleryCurator Tour—“Laia Abril: On Rape and Institutional Failure” with Sara IckowJoin ICP Associate Director of Exhibitions, Sara Ickow, on a walking tour of the exhibition, Laia Abril: On Rape and Institutional Failure , examines different forms of violence against women throughout history.Content warning: This program includes discussion of sexual violence, which may be distressing or triggering for some attendees.2:15 PM – 4:00 PMICP LibraryArtist Talk—Yuki Tawada, Yurie Nagashima, and Tomoko SawadaJoin us at ICP for a special artist conversation and book signing with I'm So Happy You Are Here photographers, Yuki Tawada, Yurie Nagashima, and Tomoko Sawada.4:00 PMICP Library Making of I'm So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Woman Photographers from the 1950s to Now Get a behind the scenes look at the making of the exhibition and book, I'm So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Woman Photographers from the 1950s to Now. Curators Lesley Martin and Pauline Vermare will be joined by book contributor Carrie Cushman to discuss how the projects developed. Saturday, October 17, 2026 +10:45 AM – 11:30 AMICP Library Snap the Sweep: Youth-Led Photography & Community ActionMeet the high school students behind Snap the Sweep: NYC at Work, a youth-led initiative using photography to celebrate NYC sanitation workers and bring attention to the people who keep the city running. Following a short presentation, participants will head into the Lower East Side for a photo walk and neighborhood clean-up, combining photography with community action. 2:00 – 4:00 PMICP Galleries, meet at the schoolFamily Art Hour—”This Book is a Camera" with Kelli Anderson2:30 – 3:30 PMSeward Park Educational CampusDavid Campany x Alec Soth Panel TalkJoin David Campany and Alec Soth for a conversation about Soth’s new exhibition, Alec Soth: Three Teens, which documents the lives of three teenagers in an intimate, coming-of-age story of youth and identity.3:00 – 7:00 PMICP Lighting StudioTintype Portrait Pop Up with Larson HarleyStep back in time with a historic tintype portrait session, led by ICP staff and faculty member Larson Harley. RSVP hereSunday, October 18, 2026 +10:30 AM – 12:00 PMICP Lighting StudioGroup Critique with Michael AckermanFor a taste of ICP’s master class, the Crit Lab is designed to take your photography to the next level. Come work with Michael Ackerman - an internationally acclaimed photographer known for his raw, atmospheric, and emotionally charged imagery - to refine your vision, strengthen your portfolio, and develop your unique voice as an imagemaker. Bring physical prints, or a hard drive and a device to view images on. CreditsFUJIKINA New York 2026, presented by FUJIFILM

Join us at ICP to learn about the making of the book and exhibition project, I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now with two of the exhibition curators Lesley A. Martin and Pauline Vermare as well as writer and scholar, Carrie Cushman.This program is being presented alongside Fujikina Festival. Register after reserving your Fujikina weekend pass.Arrive early to see our current exhibitions I'm So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now and Laia Abril: On Rape and Institutional Failure, on view through January 4. About the ExhibitionI’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now reconsiders and expands on the history of Japanese photography through the work twenty-eight intergenerational artists from the 1950s to today. Presented in partnership with Aperture and curated by Pauline Vermare, Lesley A. Martin, and Takeuchi Mariko, the exhibition includes work Fujioka Aya, Hara Mikiko, Hiromix, Ishikawa Mao, Ishiuchi Miyako, Katayama Mari, Kawauchi Rinko, Komatsu Hiroko, Kon Michiko, Nagashima Yurie, Narahashi Asako, Ninagawa Mika, Nishimura Tamiko, Noguchi Rika, Nomura Sakiko, Okabe Momo, Okanoue Toshiko, Onodera Yuki, Sawada Tomoko, Shiga Lieko, Sugiura Kunié, Suzuki Nozomi, Tawada Yuki, Tokiwa Toyoko, Ushioda Tokuko, Watanabe Hitomi, Yamazawa Eiko and Yanagi Miwa.Spanning photography, installation, photobooks, and printed matter, the exhibition explores the experiences and perspectives of women in Japan through delicate and blunt observations of everyday life, critical reflections on the roles inhabited and reshaped by Japanese women, and approaches that push the boundaries of photography. The exhibition is accompanied by a major publication (Aperture, 2024) that expands upon content of the show through essays, historical material, and a comprehensive bibliography of photobooks made by Japanese women. About the Speakers Lesley A. Martin is executive director of Printed Matter. Most recently, she was the creative director of Aperture, where she served as editor on more than one hundred books on photography, and as founding publisher of The PhotoBook Review.Pauline Vermare is the Phillip and Edith Leonian Curator, Photography, Brooklyn Museum. Previously, she served as the cultural director of Magnum Photos in New York, and curator at the International Center of Photography and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.Carrie Cushman is director of the Bates College Museum of Art in Lewiston, Maine. She holds a PhD in art history from Columbia University with a specialization in the histories of photography and Japanese art. She has authored numerous books, including Human Marks: Tattooing in Contemporary Art (2026), Komatsu Hiroko: Creative Destruction (2022), and Going Viral: Photography, Performance, and the Everyday (2020). Along with Kelly McCormick, she is the co-creator of the open source website, Behind the Camera: Gender, Power, and Politics in the History of Japanese Photography. Header image: Kawauchi Rinko, Untitled, 2004; from the series the eyes, the ears. Courtesy the artist and Aperture

Snap the Sweep: Youth-Led Photography & Community Action Join the high school students behind Snap the Sweep: NYC at Work, a youth-led photography initiative celebrating New York City's sanitation workers and the people who keep our city clean and running.Following a brief presentation introducing the project and highlighting photographs submitted so far, an ICP alum Alexis Gines will lead a photowalk through the Lower East Side focused on Snap the Sweep. Participants are invited to explore their community through photography and capture the people and everyday work that often go unnoticed.Bring your camera or smartphone and join us for this opportunity to photograph your neighborhood, connect with fellow photographers, and contribute to the project.Final Call for Submissions!Photograph submissions remain open through Sunday, October 18, at 12 PM (noon) ET. Selected photographs will be featured at ICP, and two winning photographers will receive a free ICP Teen Academy course, offering an opportunity to develop their photographic skills through ICP's Youth Programs.Learn more and submit your photographs.This free event takes place during Open House New York Weekend and Fujikina NYC 2026, the Lower East Side photography festival presented by FUJIFILM and centered at ICP.Full three-day Fujikina tickets are sold separately for $10: https://shopusa.fujifilm-x.com/fujikina/ Alexis GinesAlexis Gines is a New York City–born documentary photographer, educator, and 2025 graduate of the International Center of Photography’s Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism program. Her work explores Nuyorican identity, cultural preservation, and the socioeconomic realities of Puerto Rican communities in the South Bronx. In 2026, Gines was selected as a recipient of the prestigious Magnum Foundation Counter Histories: Puerto Rico Fellowship, chosen from 216 applicants. This is a free event. ICP's museum will also be free for the Open House. Fujikina events across the Lower East Side and at ICP are managed through their website.

Come experiment with new techniques and making art as a family during ICP Family Art Hour!This session of Family Art Hour is hosted by educator and artist Kelli Anderson. Learn about a pinhole camera by exploring Kelli’s pop-up activity book This Book is a Camera during this hands-on in gallery art making workshop for the whole family.This Book is a Camera ($28.25) is available to purchase at ICP Shop. Families with children ages 4 and up of all abilities are welcome. Parents and guardians must remain with their children during the activity. About the ArtistKelli Anderson uses handheld revelations to reconnect people with the depth and possibility of their world. Her books force readers to touch grass paper. She created This Book is a Camera (MoMA)—which transforms into a working camera—and This Book is a Planetarium (Chronicle)—which houses paper devices (including a planetarium) and has sold more than 100,000 copies. Alphabet in Motion, an interactive book about typography and technology was published to wide acclaim in the Fall of 2025. The Washington Post book editor writes that “the work of literature that delighted me most this year is this pop-up book.” Other projects include a viral paper record player and—with The Yes Men—a utopian counterfeited New York Times, which won the Ars Electronica Prix. Doctors without Borders have used the award-winning Tinybop Human Body app she illustrated to communicate illness and treatment nonverbally to their patients in remote areas. Clients include NPR, the New Yorker, the Guggenheim, MoMA, Apple, and the New York Times. She has been nominated for the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Award twice and teaches at NYU, SVA, and Cooper Union. ICP is free and open to the public on Saturday, October 17 for the Fujikina Festival and Lower East Side Open House New York! Lower East Side Open House and Open House New York Weekend is an annual festival that unlocks 300 destinations across the five boroughs for behind-the-scenes tours and special activities. Visit ICP at the Fourth Arts Block party, (East 4th Street between 2nd ave and Bowery) from 12-5 PM for community tables, live music, and more. Images © courtesy of Kelli Anderson

Join Darin Mickey, Creative Practices Chair, and Karen Marshall, Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism Chair, to learn about onsite One-Year Certificate program including program structure, curriculum highlights, faculty, student life, the admissions process, our vibrant community, and more.You’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions directly to the program Chairs and Admissions team.Applications for Fall 2027 are now open!Apply by March 1, 2027 for priority consideration and merit-based scholarship opportunities.ICP’s On-Site One-Year Certificate Programs will begin in mid-August 2027 at our New York City campus.About the Event Format This is an online event held via Zoom. Please register in advance for this free event.If you have questions about the event, please contact [email protected] by ICP Alum Cydnii Jones (Creative Practices '26)

Celebrate the opening of "What’s Ms. Pinney Doing Here? " with a conversation between Melissa Ann Pinney, and photographer Alice Proujansky, moderated by Sara Ickow, Associate Director of Exhibitions, focused on Pinney’s decade long project documenting Chicago Public School students. Join the artist in the Incubator Space after the program for a special opening reception."What’s Ms. Pinney Doing Here?" Is on view beginning October 22 in ICP’s free ground floor Incubator Space. The space is free and open to the public during café and museum hours. About the ExhibitionSince 2018, photographer Melissa Ann Pinney has documented Chicago Public School students as part of an artist residency. As the students began to invite her into their world, the project became a document of identity, community and urgent social issues. Pinney’s thoughtful portraits of young people navigating the transformations of adolescence contain all of the triumph, grief, humor, and tenderness of growing up. About the Artist Melissa Ann Pinney’s work first garnered attention in the Museum of Modern Art’s major 1991 exhibition, Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort. Her studies of the social lives and emerging identities of American adolescents have earned her many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, three Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Awards, and a National Endowment for the Arts Midwest Regional Fellowship. Pinney was selected for three documentary projects that were exhibited, published, and archived in Chicago: Changing Chicago (1987), City (2000), and most recently in the Chicago Public Schools. Pinney’s first monograph, Regarding Emma: Photographs of American Women and Girls (2003) was followed by Girl Ascending (2010), TWO (2015), and In Their Own Light: Photographs from Chicago Public Schools was published in 2023.Alice Proujansky is a photographer looking at family labor: birth, work, motherhood and identity. Her photobook, Hard Times are Fighting Times (Gnomic Book, 2023), uses archival and documentary images to look at the legacy of radical activism in her family. It was shortlisted for a 2024 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award and the Rencontres d'Arles Author Book Award, and was selected for exhibition through Baxter St's Mid-Career Artists Initiative. She is currently working on Birth Work, a photobook about culturally-responsive birth work, Transmission, an installation about diasporic Judaism and cultural inheritance and Containment, a photography and quilting project about psychological formation, motherhood and play. Alice has taught photography since 2002, most recently for Aperture, who also published her book Go Photo! An Activity Book for Kids. A member of Women Photograph, Alice grew up in Greenfield, MA. She graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and lives in Brooklyn with her family. Sara Ickow is the Associate Director of Exhibitions at the International Center of Photography and Managing Director of Women Photograph. Previously, she worked as a curatorial assistant and collections manager with the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. She holds an MA in art history from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts. About the ICP Incubator SpaceICP’s Incubator Space is a new exhibition program designed to highlight the work of emerging photographers who are responding in real time to the world around us. ICP will present a rotating selection of projects by imagemakers experimenting with and pushing boundaries around the documentary tradition. ICP’s Incubator Space is curated by Sara Ickow, Associate Director of Exhibitions at ICP. Special ThanksThis exhibition is made possible with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF). The opinions and views of the authors do not necessarily state or reflect those of the RBF. Exhibitions at ICP are supported, in part, by Michael Clinton, Caryl Englander, Renee Harbers Liddell, Almudena Legorreta, Jessica Nagle, Ken Nicholson, Jeffrey Rosen, the ICP Board of Trustees, the Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Melissa Ann Pinney, Zydrea, Brooklyn, Akylah and Friends, Ogden-Jenner Middle School, 2019

The International Center of Photography’s school presents a new two-day online symposium organized and presented by the students in the 2026 Online One Year Certificate Programs in Writing and the Photographic Image and Curatorial Practices in Photography.This program takes place online. Register to receive the link to tune into the livestream directly. ICP will also be streaming the online program in the ICP Library for students, faculty, and museum visitors to watch live. Friday, October 23, 1–5 PM ETSide A—Seeing Between the Lines: Image Text as Process Organized by the One-Year Certificate Program Students in Writing and the Photographic Image, Seeing Between the Lines: Image Text as Process delves into the various stages of conception, development, and production through which hybrid works of photography and writing take shape. Comprising both solo presentations and conversations between artists, writers, photographers, and publishers, the program will offer a range of reflections on how the compositional process unfolds, looking at the particular challenges and complexities associated with working across these two disciplines.Tickets for Side A Saturday, October 24, 11 AM–6PM ETSide B—Who Gives Meaning to Photographs?Organized by the One-Year Certificate Program Students in Curatorial Practices in Photography, Who Gives Meaning to Photographs brings together five conversations exploring how meaning in photography is shaped, negotiated, and transformed. The second symposium’s day considers who gets to be seen and represented, how memories are constructed and carried forward, how photographers shape and are shaped by place, who controls and reinterprets photographic archives, and what forms of care and support are possible beyond visibility. The program offers to look beyond the photograph itself: to the people, institutions, places, and power structures that influence how images are produced and understood.Tickets for Side B Friday Schedule +1:00 PM Track 01: Writing a PhotobookWith Carlos Loret de Mola, Fernando Gallegos, and Freddy Martinez. Introduction by Amy TouchetteFernando Gallegos is an editor and designer of photobooks with a background in literature and cinema, based in Monterrey, Mexico, and has worked on notable books by Alejandro Cartagena and several other Latin American photo artists and visual authors. Carlos Loret de Mola is a photographer and co-publisher of Los Sumergidos, an international creative collective based in New York and Mexico that produces and distributes photography-based art publications and related projects, of which Gallegos is also a founding member. Regular collaborators in book production, Gallegos and Loret de Mola will discuss and present the literary and cinematic influences that shape how Gallegos creates photobooks with artists/authors. They will be joined by writer Freddy Martinez, also an original member/author of Los Sumergidos, an editor at Aperture, and a founder of the New York-based arts collective GAUCHE, for what promises to be an entertaining and enlightening conversation about the intersections of literary and visual language in book form.2:00 PM Track 02: A Basket of HammersWith Odette England Odette England is a photographer, writer, and educator. She is the author of six books, including 2021's Dairy Character, a loose chronicle of her experience growing up on a dairy farm in southern Australia (published by Saint Lucy Books); 2024's The Long Shadow, a photo-textual study of the life and work of the American photographer Marion Post Wolcott (published by Libraryman); and, most recently, her first photo-novella Isn't X Beautiful! (published by The Ice Plant). She will discuss these and other projects at the intersection of photography and literature, including her forthcoming second novella and an experimental re-telling of Susan Sontag's On Photography.  3:00 PM Track 03: Words, Pictures, and VideotapeWith Nina Strand, Lillian Davies and Catherine Taylor Nina Strand is an artist and founder of Objektiv Press. She will present her publications juxtaposing text and image, the press's essay series on photography, and Afterimage, an ekphrastic column on the press's web journal where different people are asked to describe the image that lingers in their mind. As the sea of images continues to swell, the series explores which visuals linger and take root in today's endless stream, much like a song that plays on repeat in your head. The talk will also include a recorded piece in which Strand and the writers Lillian Davies and Catherine Taylor read from their new book Paragraphs, which brings together image and text. 4:00 PM Track 04: AfterwordWith Alan Huck and David Campany ICP’s Creative Director David Campany and Program Lead Alan Huck with conclude the day’s sessions by reflecting on the considerations that drive the Writing and the Photographic Image Program. Get Friday Tickets Saturday Schedule+10:30 AMOpening Remarks with Ximena Natera, David Campany and Daria Tuminas11:00 AM Track 01: Beautiful Men—Photography, Desire, and the Reimagining of MasculintyWith Debmalya Ray Choudhuri and Dimitri Stefanov. Moderated and organized by Velina Stefanova and Gene TolanJoin photographers Debmalaya Ray Choudhuri and Dimitri Stefanov for an intimate conversation about masculinity, photography, and desire through the interconnected ideas of Inheritance, Intimacy, and Appearance. Beautiful Men asks how masculinity is learned and embodied, what intimacy can unsettle, and ultimately, who is permitted to appear differently. 12:00 – 12:15 PM Break12:15 PM Track 02: Who Carries Memory Forward?With Anurag Banerjee, Veejay Villafranca, and moderator Veeranganakumari Solanki. Organized by Sumit Bhattacharya and Abby MadriagaBringing together photographic practices from India and the Philippines, this conversation explores memory as something continuously constructed through place, identity, culture, and lived experience. 1:15-1:30 PM Break1:30 PM Track 03: Photographic Vision and the Experience of Place—From Personal Perception to Environmental ResponsibilityWith Morten Andersen and Marine Lanier. Moderated and organized by Cathrine Wessel and Julien GallandTwo interconnected questions about the photographer’s personal relationship to place: to what extent does a particular environment shape the photographer, and to what extent does the photographer shape our understanding of the landscape? 2:30-3:00 PM Break3:00 PM Track 04: Photography at 200: Who Writes the Archive?With Sagrario Berti and Costanza De Rogatis. Moderated and organized by Mariana MendozaOn the occasion of photography's bicentennial, researcher Sagrario Berti and artist Costanza De Rogatis examine the photographic archive as a contested site of power. Berti traces how a Latin American photographic collection was organized and interpreted differently under private and public ownership; De Rogatis reactivates archival images through Piel y manos, developed in collaboration with deafblind participants. Together, they ask who builds the archive, who is represented within it, and who gets to reinterpret it. 4:00-4:15 PM Break4:15 PM Track 05: After Visibility With Krista Svalbonas and Wiktoria Michalkiewicz. Moderated and organized by Katie Tackman and Emese MucsiThis conversation explores how curators and institutions can support artists beyond visibility, with a particular focus on American and Eastern European photography and the points of convergence within the regions’ intertwined histories—political transformations, conflicts, and forms of resistance—while preserving artistic autonomy and the complexity of individual practices. Through solidarity and cross-cultural dialogue, the conversation asks how locally rooted artistic practices can achieve meaningful and sustained international visibility, and what examples of this kind of advocacy, and artist management can inform responsible curatorial practice. 5:15 PM Closing Remarks Get Saturday Tickets About ICP’s Online Certificate Programs The International Center of Photography (ICP) offers Online One-Year Certificate Programs in Curatorial Practices in Photography and Writing and the Photographic Image. Designed for emerging curators, writers, and image makers, the programs offer live, interactive online classes, individual mentorship, professional critique, and connection with an international community of peers and leading practitioners. The 2027 program year begins in January. The application deadline for priority admission and scholarship consideration is October 18. Learn more about the program here. Header Image: Jennah Moon