Fujifilm opens Challenge Grant Program 2026 – Gadget

 South Africa has opened of the GFX Challenge Grant Program 2026, which confers 5 world grant awards and 10 regional grant awards with the intention to assist creatives carry their distinctive tasks to life.

It is designed to nurture and develop the abilities of photographers and videographers, giving them the chance to create imagery or films on subjects which have vital which means to them, whereas gaining expertise utilizing Fujifilm GFX System gear. This yr, Fujifilm’s new giant format video digicam, the GFX ETERNA 55, is a part of the GFX gear that’s on supply.

South African photographers have had main success up to now getting into the GFX Challenge, with two Global Grand Awards winners coming from this nation: Jodi Windvogel in 2023 and Lee-Ann Olwage in 2025.

Grant purposes now open

Fujifilm South Africa offered the next info:

Proposed tasks could also be submitted from 16 June 2026 till 17 August 2026, with the GFX Challenge 2026 open to each newbie {and professional} photographers and videographers. Information in regards to the GFX Challenge Grant Program 2026, together with easy methods to enter, could be discovered on https://www.fujifilm-x.com/global/gfx-challenge-grant-program/.

The 2026 version will see 5 Global Grant Awards and 10 Regional Grant Awards up for grabs. Recipients of the Global Grant Award will obtain the next:

• US $10,000 Grant
• Complimentary use of a GFX System digicam physique and two GF lenses at some stage in the undertaking
• Mentoring and technical help from Fujifilm technicians / product specialists.

On supply for the Regional Grant Award are:

• US $5,000 Grant
• Complimentary use of a GFX System digicam physique and two GF lenses at some stage in the undertaking
• Mentoring and technical help from Fujifilm technicians / product specialists.

The award recipients’ closing content material will likely be showcased on the fujifilm-x.com web site. A collection of exhibitions can also be deliberate to showcase the work in varied nations.

Opportunities created

South African photographer, Lee-Ann Olwage, was a recipient of the Global Grant Award throughout final yr’s version of the GFX Challenge. 

“The GFX Challenge Grant Program allowed me to complete a project close to my heart – photographing the Amazigh women from the Atlas Mountains in Morocco,” says Olwage. “For generations, women have woven together personal narratives, collective histories, and domestic life into traditional rugs. With the Global Grant I was able to spend time amongst the Amazigh to tell a story about this sacred weaving tradition with the Fujifilm GFX100RF camera as my storytelling partner of choice. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that would not have been possible without the GFX Challenge Grant Program.”