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

This program is being presented alongside Fujikina Festival. Register after reserving your Fujikina weekend pass. Limited walk-ins will be allowed as space permits. Join ICP Associate Director of Exhibitions, Sara Ickow, on a walking tour of the exhibition, Laia Abril: On Rape and Institutional Failure, which 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. Program Format/Accessibility Information:This is a walking tour of the gallery; no seating is provided. For accessibility questions or requests, please email [email protected]. About the ExhibitionOn Rape and Institutional Failure, an exhibition centered on the second chapter of her ongoing project A History of Misogyny, Laia Abril examines different forms of violence against women throughout history.Weaving together images, compiled testimonies, archival materials, select objects, and installations with sound and video, the exhibition investigates how gender-based stereotypes, coupled with worldwide prejudices and misconceptions, have contributed to a systemic rape culture that persists today.By focusing on institutions, Abril aims to avoid narratives of victim-blaming, instead addressing the on-going problem of social accountability that has allowed offenders and enablers alike to avoid justice. On Rape and Institutional Failure was first exhibited in 2020 in the wake of the initial, galvanizing allegations against Harvey Weinstein and other powerful men. While #MeToo has led to few sustained consequences and little systemic change, Abril offers a meaningful opportunity to address the long history of silencing victims and the transgenerational trauma that has developed as a result. About Laia AbrilLaia Abril (b. 1986) is a research-based artist working across photography, text, video, and sound, focusing on biopolitics and gender issues. Her work is rooted in a politically engaged, process-driven methodology that employs strategies of forensic aesthetics and counter-narratives, interrogating dominant histories and the politics of representation.Her work has been exhibited in over 25 countries and is held in collections such as Centre Pompidou, Photo Elysée, Fotomuseum Winterthur, MACBA, Reina Sofía, MNAC, and the V&A Museum. She has authored acclaimed books, including The Epilogue, Lobismuller, and the A History of Misogyny series: On Abortion, On Rape, and On Mass Hysteria.She has received the Foam Paul Huf Award (Amsterdam), RPS Hood Medal (London), Aperture Best Book Award (NY/Paris), and Spain’s National Photography Award. Based in Switzerland, she is CONFIDENTIAL Last Updated: June 29, 2026 About CuratorSara Ickow is the Associate Director of Exhibitions at the International Center of Photography, where she has been a curator on exhibitions including Gillian Laub: Family Matters, ICP at 50: From the Collection 1845–2019, To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography, and Photobooks USA 2000–25. She is also the Managing Director for Women Photograph and co-editor of the book Women Photograph: What We See. Previously, she worked as Curatorial Assistant and Collections Manager at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Sara holds an MA in Art History from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts. Header Image: Laia Abril, Ala Kachuu (Bride Kidnapping), Kyrgyzstan, 2019 © Laia Abril, Courtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris; Laia Abril, Church Rape, Argentina, 2019 © Laia Abril, Courtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris; Laia Abril, Military rape, US, 2019 © Laia Abril, Courtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris

Join us at ICP for a conversation with the artist Yuki Tawada, Yurie Nagashima, and Tomoko Sawada featured in our current exhibition I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now. The disccusion will encompass Tawada’s latest publication, “FIRE WATER”, as well their intergenerational practices. The discussion will be followed by a signing in the ICP Shop. This program is being presented alongside Fujikina Festival. Register after reserving your Fujikina weekend pass.Tickets to attend the conversation in person are $10 and include access to ICP’s galleries. 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 BookYuki Tawada is an artist who radically expands the possibilities of photographic expression by challenging the photograph as a physical object through processes such as scraping and burning. This book is the first mid-career retrospective of Tawada’s work, bringing together, series by series, nearly twenty years of her practice, from her earliest works to her most recent projects. In WHITE OUT, Tawada spends months rubbing and scraping the surfaces of large-scale photographic prints depicting crowds and cities with erasers and needles—not to erase the image, but to touch the unseen force within it. In I am in You, Tawada and her mother, who live apart, work with the same photograph of waves in their separate places, burning only the areas of water with a heated drawing tool. Through this process, personal memory opens outward into the time of the family and the memories of others. Through such physical interventions into the photograph, Tawada approaches the realms of individual and collective unconscious, memory, and emotion. In recent years, Tawada has extended this practice into ceramics through her collaboration with ceramic artist Fuku Fukumoto. In Lachrymatory, photographic ash—the remains of photographs burned by participants—is turned into glaze and fused into the surface of vessels. Through processes involving photographic transfer, bodily traces, clay, water, fire, and firing, Tawada approaches photography not simply as an image, but as something that can disappear, transform, and pass into other forms of matter. The collaborative ceramic works further explore photography as something that continues to transform within clay, water, fire, and gravity. The book includes Tawada’s own concept texts for each series, as well as essays by Pauline Vermare, Curator of Photography at the Brooklyn Museum, and art historian and critic Toshiharui Ito. About the Speakers Yuki Tawada (b. 1978, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan) graduated from the Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Tohoku University, with a focus on biotechnology, and studied as an exchange student at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She later graduated from Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, in Photography, and completed her PhD in Intermedia Art at Tokyo University of the Arts. She is currently a Professor at Kyoto University of the Arts. Her practice opens photography by hand as a kind of “field,” reweaving images through the exchange between body and information, and bringing transformation into being.Born in 1973 in Nakano, Tokyo, Yurie Nagashima gained attention with her nude family portraits at age 20, winning the PARCO Prize. She earned a BA in Visual Communication Design from Musashino Art University (1995) and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts (1999). In 2000, she received the Kimura Ihei Photography Award. Her work—spanning self‑portraiture, family life, street and still-life photography—is known for its candid intimacy and feminist undertones, often probing identity, gender, and the everyday. She is a lecturer (Musashino + Tokyo Universities) and visiting professor at Kyoto Seika University; her work continues to influence both photographic and feminist discourse.Tomoko Sawada (澤田 知子, Sawada Tomoko, born 1977 in Kobe, Japan) is a Japanese contemporary feminist photographer and performance artist. She has been included in numerous group shows in Japan, Europe and the US. Her first solo exhibition was in 1997 at Japan's Gallery Chat. In 2004 she was awarded the prestigious Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award for Young Japanese Photographer as well as the International Center of Photography Infinity Award in the category of Young Photographer. Header image:Yuki Tawada, FIRE WATER

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)