International Fine Print Auction
Wednesday, March 6, 2002, 6:30-10:00 p.m.
With Denise Bethel, Senior Vice President, Auctioneer, Director of the Photographs Department, Sotheby’s Inc. New York

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The auction preview exhibit opened February 20, 2002 at Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Inc. and was on view through March 5, 2002.

Proceeds from Auction ticket and table sales benefited FotoFest’s year-round Literacy Through Photography (LTP) in Houston-area public schools. LTP provides more than a thousand students with cameras and a curriculum using photography to improve writing and cognitive skills. Students are asked to photograph people, places, and events important in their lives, analyze their pictures, and write about these subjects. Sandra Axelrad, an LTP teacher at Piney Point Elementary School says: “The photograph has freed my students to exercise their oral and writing skills.” The LTP program has been in the Houston Independent School District since 1990.

Print sales from the Fine Print Auction benefited artist programs and the Meeting Place portfolio reviews allowing hundreds of artist photographers to exhibit work and show their portfolios to important museum curators, publishers, gallery owners, and representatives of photo agencies from the United States, Mexico, South America, Australia, Canada and Europe.

Judith Cooper, a photographer and 2000 Meeting Place participant commented; “As the reviews from around the country and the world accurately reflected, FotoFest is a truly world class event. It was by far the highlight of my career to be a part of it.”

The Fine Print Auction was one of many events scheduled in Houston and Galveston for FotoFest’s Ninth Biennial International Month of Photography. The only international photography event of its scope in the United States, FotoFest 2002 took place in over one hundred Houston museums, galleries, universities and other visual art spaces.