Exhibit Brings Detainees' "Pictures from Home" by Wade Goodwyn
	Detainees: Putting faces to the story by Carol Rosenberg

Exhibition Extended through June 2, 2007
FotoFest Headquarters, 1113 Vine Street, Houston, Texas
Gallery Hours: Mon - Fri, 10am - 5pm, Sat, Noon - 5pm

Exhibition by Margot Hester
Audio and video installations by Carolyn Mara Borlenghi and Margot Herster
Curated by Wendy Watriss, FotoFest

In conjunction with GUANTANAMO. Pictures From Home. Questions of Justice., Guantánamo habeas corpus attorneys and experts on constitutional law, military commissions, and the politics of art have come to Houston for FotoFest - sponsored talks about legal and human rights issues related to Guantánamo and policies of detainment in the "war on terror."

In the past week, Guantánamo has been back at the top of the news with the Department of Justice's request to limit habeas corpus attorneys' access to Guantánamo and their detainee clients. () Without the more open access to Guantánamo that attorneys had previously won through the Supreme Court decisions of 2004 (Rasul v. Bush) and 2006 (Hamdan v. Rumsfeld), an exhibition like GUANTANAMO. Pictures From Home. Questions of Justice. may never have been possible. The stories of detainees are told through the photographs and texts collected and organized by artist Margot Herster. The images were made by the attorneys themselves over the course of several years and through many visits with detainees and their families. The Pictures were taken for the purpose of building trust and improving communication with their detainee clients.  

	Project Creator and Artist Margot Herster (l.) talks to guests at the exhibition opening March 31, 2007.
	Featured attorneys Douglas Cox and Sarah Havens (l.), from the New York office of Allen & Overy, spoke Sunday April 1 at the exhibit with Project Creator and Artist Margot Herster and Video Artist Carolyn Mara Borlenghi.
	Pro bono habeas consul Anant Raut (l.), from the Washington D.C. office of Weil Gotshall & Manges LLP, and West Point constitutional law professor Lt. Col. Mark A. Bridges spoke April 11 on detainee rights and the history of military commissions from the Mexican-American war to the present.
	David Levi Strauss (l.), the nationally acclaimed writer and speaker on art and politics, gave a visual presentation on the images from Abu Ghraib and their historical associations with pornography and torture.

FotoFence 2006 at The Galleria. Students work at FotoFence bookmarker station at reception.

FotoFence 2007
A FotoFest Literacy Through Photography (LTP) Event

May 14 - 19, 2007
Memorial City Mall

Special Reception for LTP Students, Teachers, Families, and Friends:
Saturday, May 19, 11am - 1pm.

Literacy Through Photography (LTP) is a pre-collegiate writing program, working in elementary, middle and high schools to improve students' writing skills.

Students in the LTP program are given cameras and follow the specially designed lessons plans photographing four main themes of the curriculum, and areas of their lives: SELF, FAMILY, COMMUNITY, and DREAMS. Their photographs serve as engaging catalysts for subsequent writing assignments. Using the final lesson, students create collage posters of their best photography and writing from throughout the year to be displayed at FotoFence, the annual exhibit of LTP student work.

FotoFest will present FotoFence 2007 beginning on May 14 at Memorial City Mall (I-10 at Gessner).On Saturday, May 19, 11am - 1pm, FotoFest will hold a special Closing Reception for LTP students, teachers, families, and friends

LTP is used by the Harris County Department of Education, Project GRAD (Graduation Really Achieves Dreams), and the Houston Independent School District. It has reached school districts across Texas, in California, Oklahoma, Colorado, North Carolina, and New Mexico. More than 20,000 students have benefited from the Literacy Through Photography program since its introduction in 1987.

Memorial City Mall
near Ice Skate USA
I-10 at Gessner (MAP)

Gallery Hours:
Monday - Saturday, 10 am - 9 pm
Sunday, Noon - 6 pm

Directions to Memorial City Mall
From I-10 East, exit Gessner only and access the mall via Frostwood, Gessner, or Memorial City Way.
From I-10 West, exit Bunker Hill or Gessner to access the mall.

For more information about FotoFence 2007, please contact Marianne Stavenhagen at ltp@fotofest.org or 713.223.5522 Ext. 19.

Antennae
April 27– June 3, 2007

Featuring work by: Mary Magsamen and Stephan Hillerbrand (Houston); John Sparagana (Houston/Chicago); Janet Biggs (NY); Ken Fandell (Chicago); Todd Gray (Southern California); Juliane Eirich (Munich); Peter Kennard and Cat Picton Phillipps (London); Matthew Noel-Tod (London); Anne Katrine Senstad (Oslo/New York); and brothers Carlos and Jason Sanchez (Montreal)

In an ambitious view of where photography is headed, three-dimensional installations, video and cell phone imagery take their place among more than 25 lens-based works in Antennae, opened April 27, 2007.

The exhibition deals with issues ranging from the human pain and violence of the Iraq war to the influence of colonial missionaries on African society and architecture. Other works explore the sexuality of milk and coffee, the euphoric value of “pink” and the culture of youth and beauty. Curated by Madeline Yale, Program Director and Interim Executive Director of HCP, Antennae features work by 10 artists or collaborative teams representing an international cross-section of contemporary lens-based art.

Houston Center for Photography - 1441 West Alabama, Houston, Texas 77006 - www.hcponline.org