The Fujifilm/Penumbra Foundation Internship provides the opportunity to gain invaluable artistic and professional skills through experience with artists and their archives. Given the fact that there are many artists’ archives which are at risk of being lost, this internship is an opportunity for interns to play a part in photographic preservation that is invaluable to artists’ careers as well as provide a historical record.
Penumbra is excited to host a series of online public lectures in July 2025, where each artist will share insight into the projects being digitized through this program.
Upcoming ONLINE Lectures
Join us for a series of online lectures where artists Lola Flash, Katsu Naito, and Nina Berman will discuss the projects that are being digitized as part of the Fujifilm/Penumbra Foundation Internship Program.
Lola Flash AIDS / ACT UP
Katsu Naito Harlem
Nina Berman Return to Vietnam
2025 Artists
2025 Interns
About the program
This 4 month intensive internship provides young artists with the opportunity to digitize a project from an artist’s archive using Penumbra’s new Digitization System, equipped with a a FUJIFILM GFX100S II.
Interns learn directly from industry professionals in educational seminars that go over each aspect of the process including:
- Understanding & Handling of Materials
- Assessment & Cataloguing
- Digitization System- Hardware: Using Fujifilm Cameras & Fotocare Copystand
- Digitization System- Software: Capture One
- File Management & Metadata
In addition to digitizing the artists projects, interns are given time and resources to advance their own practices.
This program is possible thanks to the vision and support of Fujifilm.
Our Digitization System was made possible by a 2024 Capital Grant by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
