In addition to its well-known photographic arts Biennials, FotoFest does year-round art and education programming. Following the successful FOTOFEST2008 Biennial in March-April this year, FotoFest announces the next season of Inter-Biennial Exhibitions.

For the 2008-2009 Inter-Biennial season FotoFest has scheduled five exhibitions focusing on regional, national and international artists and exciting collaboration with other organizations such as Houston Center for Photography. To make information on these and other FotoFest programs easier to access, FotoFest is launching a new web-based calendar. To access the FotoFest Calendar and information on the new Inter-Biennial exhibitions, click here.

FotoFest's acclaimed Meeting Place portfolio reviews for artists is an essential part of the FotoFest Biennial. It provides artists the opportunity to have their work seen by important international curators and opinion-makers in the field of photo-related art. Over the course of the last 20 years, the Meeting Place has been the catalyst for exhibitions, publications and wider acclaim for many artists.

To enable Meeting Place participants to share success stories from the 2008 portfolio reviews, we are posting stories we receive from Meeting Place artists and reviewers on Successes of the Meeting Place.  To visit, please click here.

The six weeks of the FOTOFEST2008 Biennial were filled with events from exhibition openings and scholarly lectures to portfolio reviews, curatorial tours, the fine print auction and receptions with participating Chinese artists and curators. Whether you were in Houston this past Spring as a part of the events, or if you weren't able to join us, we invite you to visit the FOTOFEST2008 Biennial Events Galleries to see some of what took place in March-April and the people who were a part of it.

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(l. to r.) Chinese Co-organizer Jimmy Chu assists exhibiting Chinese artist LI Lang and curator Anne Wilkes Tucker during the first Evening with the Artists open portfolio review. LI Lang was one of 30 Chinese artists, curators and guests in Houston for the FOTOFEST2008 Biennial. Most Chinese artists, featured in the FotoFest curated exhibits,  were in Houston for the first two weeks of the Biennial. Ten of the Chinese artists participated in the FOTOFEST Meeting Place Portfolio Review.

Emily Neal, Literacy Through Photography Coordinator

Emily Neal has joined the FotoFest staff as the new Coordinator of Literacy Through Photography, FotoFest's year-round classroom education program 

Emily Neal has had experience teaching and administering  the Literacy Through Photography curriculum since 1996 when she was the Bilingual Instructional Specialist for Lamar Consolidated Independent School District near Houston, Texas. She has been both a teacher and an administrator within Texas public schools... more>>

Even before the end of FOTOFEST2008 on April 20,  FotoFest began fielding questions about the next Biennial - FOTOFEST2010.

The FOTOFEST2010 Biennial will be held March - April 2010. Current information FOTOFEST2010, the process for exhibition submissions, exhibition themes, and the 2010 Meeting Place are posted now on the FOTOFEST2010 Information Page.

The best way to receive news and information on FOTOFEST2010 and all FotoFest programming is the FotoFest Online Newsletter. FotoFest will announce the FOTOFEST2010 Biennial dates and themes in September 2008 via the online newsletter. Subscribe here.

In early August FotoFest will upload image galleries from its FOTOFEST2008 - Photography from China 1934-2008 exhibitions.

Images from all 34 Chinese artists featured in the FotoFest curated exhibitions will be presented along with artist biographies and excerpts from the FOTOFEST Symposium on Chinese Photography in the 20th Century. The galleries will be announced in the August 2008 FotoFest Newsletter.

Ben Aqua
From the series Business Deals in the New Future.

Part of the Inter-Biennial exhibition series Talent in Texas.

Cara Barer
Carmen
Artist Cara Barer was a 2008 Meeting Place participant is currently in an exhibition at Galerie Poller in New York. Four images were published in the May 2008 issue of Photonews, a photo magazine in Hamburg, Germany. Both opportunities were the result of reviews at the 2008 Meeting Place.

The FOTOFEST2008 CHINA catalogue is available for purchase.

The catalogue is the official book for the FOTOFEST2008 Biennial. It features 212 full-color pages showcasing work from 34 Chinese artists over 74 years of Chinese history. The catalogue has essays on 20th Century Chinese Photography by some of the China's leading scholars and critics.

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The Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble is a regular contributor to FotoFest programs, producing dance works to accompany FOTOFEST2004, FOTOFEST2006 and the 2007 exhibition Guantanamo.
Pictures From Home. Questions of Justice.

The dance group celebrates their 10th season starting this month with performances of SANCTUARY MOON and a revival of the FotoFest inspired
A NOTE FROM GUANTÁNAMO.

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