| NAZAR:
Photographs From the Arab World |
| Brought
to Houston by FotoFest from the Noorderlicht
Photofestival in The Netherlands, NAZAR: Photographs
From the Arab World opens in New York at
the Aperture
Foundation September 8 and runs through November
3. For more information see the NAZAR
pages on the FotoFest web site. 
Lalla Essaydi, Converging Territores
#2, 2003
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Exhibition:
"Hey, Listen
To Me!" Writing Pictures
September 8 - October 7, 2005 |
Student Photograph, FotoFest,
1996
This Fall, in time for the start
of another school year, FotoFest presents a
special exhibition of student work from its
Literacy Through Photography (LTP)
educational program. The exhibition will present
over 100 posters and photographs made by students
in the LTP program since 1990. Focusing
on the curriculum's four themes of Self,
Family, Community and Dreams,
the exhibition shows how LTP uses photography
to improve students’ writing abilities, cognitive
thinking and classroom communication skills.
The exhibit opens Thursday,
September 8, 2005 6-9 pm in conjunction
with the Downtown Stomp Around, a
multi-gallery celebration of the opening of
Houston's downtown arts season, sponsored by
DiverseWorks.
This month LTP, FotoFest’s digital
and film-based writing project, celebrates 15
years working in classrooms around the country.
Over the years, FotoFest has trained over 300
teachers who have used the program with over
20,000 students.
The program is scheduled to
be used in 44 inner-city schools during the
2005-2006 school year - serving more than 2,000
students in the Houston area alone.
Teacher trainings are currently
being scheduled for the fall and spaces are
still available. For more information contact
Angela Grace at 713.223.5522 ex.11 or ltp@fotofest.org. |
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| FotoFest 2006 Participating
Spaces
It's not too late to sign up to be a 2006 Participating
Space!!! If you are interested in being a Participating
Space during the upcoming Biennial in Spring 2006,
you must register with FotoFest by September 15,
2005 by filling out
this form on the FotoFest website.
Wednesday, September 14 is the last day to submit
all exhbition, map/calendar, catalogue material. Please
check the FotoFest web site for information or contact
Jennifer Ward at exhibits@fotofest.org.
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WORKSHOPS- FOTOFEST
2006!
March 14 & March 19, 2006
Due to popular demand, FotoFest is
again sponsoring one-day workshops on March 14 and
19, 2006 as part of FOTOFEST 2006.
The workshops are different: They
do not repeat themselves. They are being held at the
DoubleTree Hotel Houston Downtown on the off days
of the Meeting Place portfolio reviews.
Workshop One: Tuesday
March 14, gives an overview on Career Development,
Creating and Managing Digital Workflow with American
Society of Media Photographers (ASMP-regional and
national), and Creative Use of Digital Processes from
the Camera to the Printer with experts in Digital
Printing and Image Making.
Workshop Two: Sunday
March 19, focuses on Publishing. It presents a Career
Overview with respect to Publishing, Book Packaging
and Publishing with Commercial Publishers, issues
of Book Distribution, Self Publishing, and use of
Digital Processes relative to Publishing. The Workshop
will be coordinated with Robert Morten, who has 40
years experience in the photographic and publishing
industry.
The workshops are in collaboration
with the American
Society of Media Photographers (ASMP-regional
and national), Independent photography consultant
Mary Virginia Swanson, publishers and working photographers.
Individual presenters and topics will
be posted on the FotoFest web site in late September
2005.
Workshop registrants do not have to
be registered for the Meeting Place portfolio reviews.
Please fill out the workshop registration
form by January 3, 2006. The registration
form is available to print on the FotoFest web
site.
Space is limited! Availability is
on a first-come, first-serve basis. We look forward
to seeing you in March!
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National Public Radio interview with
NAZAR photographer Issa Touma
 (6MB
MP3) |
The
Literacy Through Photography website has a new
design. Take a look here.
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FotoFest
is looking for volunteers for our
next exhibition. We need assistance on the following
Saturdays: November 19, 2-9 (during the Art Crawl),
November 26, December 3, 10, and 17 from 12-5.
Contact Volunteer Coordinator Marianne
Stavenhagen for more information. |
SATURDAY
MATINEE WORKSHOP
Bayou Pics Series
Saturday, September 17, 2005,
1-4
Co-sponsored by FotoFest and Buffalo
Bayou Partnership.
The second in an ongoing series of
photographic walking tours along Houston’s historic
Buffalo Bayou.
Houston was founded on the bayou and
continues to grow along it. This tour will focus on
the newly renovated section of Buffalo Bayou that
runs through Downtown. The renovations, including
hike and bike trails on both sides of the bayou to
link the Allen Parkway trail system with Sesquicentennial
Park, a new park, new street-to-bayou access points,
decorative lighting, native landscaping and other
amenities.
Your registration must
be recieved by Friday, September 16 to participate.
Space is limited to 15. For a registration form click
here.
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Rhubarb
Rhubarb -
Birmingham, UK
July 20-August
13, 2005 |
| Portfolio Review, photo exhibitions and
auction in Birmingham, UK, Rhubarb Rhubarb presented its
annual international festival of the image from July 20
to August 13, 2005. The portfolio review included 152
photographers, 43 international curators, magazine and
book publishers, as well as representatives from picture
agencies. FotoFest co-founders Fred Baldwin and Wendy
Watriss were invited from FotoFest. |
Rhubarb on the streets of
Birmingham. |
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FotoFest says
goodbye to two interns. Good Luck!
"[FotoFest] is an organization
that gives you real resposibilities and introduces you
to the professional world. Thanks to their international
character, students from other parts of the world can
participate in this experience."
-Gabriel Cruz Mendoza
"[The internship] is something that I can remember
for the rest of my life and look
back on for pleasant experiences."
-Michael Sanders |
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