FUJIFILM Fujikina NYC 2026 Program Detailed – 85 Add-On Sessions, Movie Stills Talks, Short Film Screening

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FUJIFILM Fujikina NYC 2026 Program Detailed – 85 Add-On Sessions, Movie Stills Talks, Short Film Screening

FUJIFILM has published the full program for Fujikina NYC 2026, which takes over New York’s Lower East Side from October 16 to 18 with a $10 Experience Pass and 85 bookable add-on sessions. I will be there for CineD, so here is what the weekend looks like, and which parts of it matter if you shoot video.

Here it is: the schedule we were missing when I first wrote about Fujikina’s return to New York. Back then, FUJIFILM had only shared the dates and the city. Now there is a ticketing system, a cluster of venues around the International Center of Photography (ICP) at 84 Ludlow Street, a FUJIFILM Brand House, a theater program, gallery partners in Magnum Photos, World Press Photo and FotoFest, and a long list of photowalks, workshops, talks and roundtables that have to be booked individually. I bought my pass and went through all 85 of them. Of those, 64 are free and 21 cost $10 or $15, and at the time of writing 51 are already fully booked.

The structure is simple once you have seen it. The Experience Pass gets you into the venues, the exhibitions, the Brand House, the parties and a set of theater talks. Everything else is an add-on that you reserve through your FUJIFILM Shop USA account after buying the pass, including the free ones. Saturday is by far the densest day, with 57 of the 85 sessions. Friday has 12 and Sunday has 16.

Photowalk group at the waterfront during a past Fujikina. Image credit © 2022 Oscar Durand, via FUJIFILM

What the $10 pass covers

According to FUJIFILM, the ticket includes access to “three world-class photo exhibitions, three inspiring community galleries,” plus the Brand House, parties and meetups, and select panels and talks. The exhibitions come from the partners: ICP’s I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now, Magnum’s A World in Color, and the World Press Photo Exhibition 2026, which World Press Photo lists at 105 Eldridge Street. FUJIFILM describes the venues as walkable for most people, and you are free to leave and re-enter with your badge.

Friday is the soft opening. An Opening Basecamp Meetup runs at the Brand House from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM, the Festival Exhibition Open House follows from 4:30 to 6:30 PM, and the Opening Party takes place at the Brand House from 4:00 to 7:00 PM. On Saturday, a Touch & Try area with current FUJIFILM gear is listed at the Brand House from 10:00 AM to 7:30 PM.

Exhibition wall with portraits during Fujikina. Image credit © 2022 Oscar Durand, via FUJIFILM

Saturday in the theater

The part of the program I would not miss is the Saturday theater lineup, which sits in the daily schedule as festival program and not as a bookable add-on. Jonas Rask opens at 10:15 AM with “Stay Curious, Stay Relevant.” Director and cinematographer Scott Duncan follows at 12:15 PM with “30+ Years of Lessons from 137 Countries,” a talk that covers his work on Survivor among other things. At 2:30 PM, ICP creative director David Campany sits down with Magnum photographer Alec Soth; ICP lists the Seward Park Educational Campus as the location for that conversation.

At 4:00 PM, World Press Photo global jury chair Kira Pollack talks to Photo of the Year winner Carol Guzy about photojournalism on the US front lines. The day closes at 5:15 PM with unit stills photographer Melinda Sue Gordon on movie stills: how a stills photographer works alongside the film crew, and the split-second decisions involved, with an audience Q&A.

Stage talk seen from the audience, Image credit © 2025 Kevin Castro, via FUJIFILM

What is in it for filmmakers?

Let’s be honest about this: Fujikina is a photography festival, and the program reflects that. FUJIFILM frames the whole event around the 200th anniversary of photography. Still, there is more moving-image content than I expected.

Sunday has the most obvious entry: “Short Films Presented by Coco Tolentino,” a two-hour screening in the theater from 12:00 to 2:00 PM, followed by discussion and Q&A. Scott Duncan appears twice, once in the theater and once in a Saturday 4:15 PM roundtable with New York photographer and director David Geffin, who hosts 12 of these small-format conversations in the Community Gallery across the three days. Melinda Sue Gordon also does more than one session. Her Brand House talk at noon on Saturday is full, but the Femme Foto community conversation with her at 1:45 PM still had space when I checked.

Two people at a rigged cine camera. Image credit © 2025 Kevin Castro, via FUJIFILM

On the workflow side, Capture One product specialist Marshall Long and product training manager Alex López walk through a complete FUJIFILM workflow from camera to delivery on Saturday at 12:45 PM in the ICP Studio. Negative Supply CEO AJ Holmes covers camera-based film scanning of 35mm, 120 and 4×5 on Saturday morning. Alan Winslow’s introduction to volumetric photography, which deals with capture and processing for immersive 3D images, is already fully booked. So are both sessions of Xyza Bacani’s “The Human Photograph,” which looks at trust and authenticity as AI-generated imagery becomes more common. That one clearly hit a nerve.

Photowalks are almost gone

The 22 photowalks are the paid part of the program, and they went first: 19 are full. Most cost $15 and run 75 to 90 minutes on Saturday, in three waves starting at 10:45 AM, 1:00 PM and 3:30 PM. The leaders include Jonas Rask, Tom Baumgaertel on multiple exposures, Ritchie Roesch on Fuji X Weekly film simulation recipes, Alison Conklin, Derek Fahsbender, Gary Hughes and Irene Yee.

Three photowalks were still open when I looked. Aaron Anderson’s black and white street photography walk on Saturday at 10:45 AM costs $15, as does the Sunday 10:00 AM walk with Janette Beckman. Meryl Meisler’s “Walking the 70s” on Sunday at 2:15 PM costs $10 and takes participants to Lower East Side locations where she photographed in the 1970s. The portfolio reviews at The Meeting Place by FotoFest on Saturday morning are sold out as well.

Attendees with cameras on a pier. Image credit © 2022 Oscar Durand, via FUJIFILM

Price and availability

The Fujikina NYC 2026 Experience Pass costs $10 and covers all three days, October 16 to 18. Add-ons are booked separately through a FUJIFILM Shop USA account once you hold a pass: 64 are free, 20 photowalks cost $15 and one costs $10. At the time of writing, 34 of the 85 add-ons still had space, most of them talks and roundtables. For more information, please visit the FUJIFILM website.