Global Forum On Water Video Streams Now
Online
Streaming video of FotoFest
2004's GLOBAL FORUM ON WATER is now available for
viewing on the internet. The entire two days of the Forum at
Rice University can be viewed free in either Real Media or
Windows Media formats by clicking the "more" button.  |
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European Photography no. 75 Highlights FotoFest
2004
European Photography Magazine
has focused its 75th issue on FotoFest 2004 - Water,
exhibiting artists and the 2004 Global Forum on Water. Along
with essays by Global Forum speakers Sandra Postel, William
McDonough, David Auerbach, Maude Barlowe, and Neal Lane, the
magazine has published images from nine FotoFest 2004
exhibitions including Steven Benson, Sant Khalsa, Mark Klett,
Geoffrey Fricker, David Goldes, Susan Derges, Nils-Udo, The
Institute for Flow Sciences and David Maisel. Publisher
Andreas Muller-Pohle worked closely with FotoFest Artistic
Director Wendy Watriss on this special 80-page issue that
marks both European Photography's 75th issue and FotoFest 20th
anniversary Biennial.
Special Limited Edition signed
copies of European Photography #75 may be purchased at FotoFest
Headquarters or through our online store for
a discount price of $20. |
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FOTOFEST 1996 Kurdistan Exhibition Opens in
Paris
FotoFest’s outstanding 1996
exhibit Kurdistan, In The Shadow of History, organized
with author/photographer Susan Meiselas, is being exhibited in
Paris. The exhibition opened June 22, 2004 at the Hotel de
Ville. The exhibit, presented at FotoFest 1996 in conjunction
with The Menil Collection has been traveling abroad for seven
years abroad. The Paris opening is very timely. The exhibition
presents the history of the Kurdish people in the Middle East
since the mid 19th century through documents, photo albums,
news and government accounts, and the work of international
and Kurdish photojournalists. An accompanying website (http://www.akakurdistan.com) and book,
KURDISTAN, In the Shadow of History, published
by Random House, have been produced by Susan Meiselas. |
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FOTOFEST 2004 Artists in Exhibition at
Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas,
Texas
The work of four artists from
the FotoFest 2004 Meeting Place will be exhibited at the
Photographs Do Not Bend gallery as part of the
exhibition GLOBAL WARMING. |
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FOTOFEST 2004 Exhibitions at FotoArte in
Brazil
FotoFest is presenting two
exhibitions at FotoArte 2004 in Brasilia, Brazil: St.
Petersburg, The Language of Water - Alexey Titarenko and
Andrey Chezhin; and FotoFest 2004, Discoveries of the
Meeting Place - Vincent Cianni, Brian Finke, Thomas
Kellner, Elaine Ling, and Dominic Rouse. FotoFest founders
Fred Baldwin and Wendy Watriss were among 12 international
curators invited to review portfolios during the event.
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Anonymous, Kurdish Noble,
19th
Century Postcard
Courtesy of Susan
Meiselas |
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| Wendy Watriss (far right), Pedro Mayer
(center right) and Chuck Samuels (center left) review an
artist's portfolio at FotoArte,
Brasillia | |
