The FotoFest Newsletter
June 2005
THE 2006 MEETING PLACE
March 10 - 23, 2006

Registration for the Meeting Place began June 1, 2005!

Photographers may register for four or six days and will have one-on-one reviews with experts who can assist with exhibitions and publications and provide guidance for future career development. Two break days take place on March 14 and March 19. On break days, FotoFest is sponsoring workshops, exhibit tours and special events, including the Fine Print Auction.

4-day registration - $725.00
March 10-13 or March 15-18 or March 20-23, 2006

6-day registration - $900.00
March 10-16 or March 17-23, 2006

Meeting Place and Workshop Registration
The Meeting Place and Workshop Registration Form is available on the FotoFest web site. The online registration form must be completed and sent to FotoFest by mail or fax. NO phone, e-mail, web site or walk-in registrations are accepted.

FotoFest will begin processing Meeting Place registrations on July 14, 2005.

Meeting Place forms received after July 14, 2005 will be processed or placed on the waiting list in the order they arrive in the FotoFest office.

WORKSHOP
Due to popular demand, FotoFest is again sponsoring two one-day workshops including use of digital processes for marketing, self-promotion, archiving, and Image reproduction as well as book publishing and creation of CD-ROMs. The workshop involves collaborations with American Society of Media Photographers and Mary Virginia Swanson.

1-day Workshop - $150.00
March 14 or March 19, 2006 (program repeated)

The 2006 Fine Print Auction
March 14, 2006
The 2006 Fine Print Auction will be held at the DoubleTree Hotel in Downtown Houston, March 14, 2006. More information on the auction will be posted in the coming months.

Location
The headquarters hotel for The Meeting Place 2006 is the DoubleTree Hotel in Downtown Houston. The entire 2006 Meeting Place as well as the Workshop will be held at the hotel.

Hotel reservations can be made at the Houston Downtown DoubleTree by calling 713-759-0202, or online at www.houstondowntown.doubletree.com, please use the code IFF for the special FotoFest rate.

Upon arrival at the Meeting Place, registrants for the portfolio reviews will be provided with a complimentary copy of FotoFest's Reviewer Bios to assist photographers in becoming familiar with participating portfolio reviewers. Bios will also be posted in early 2006 on the FotoFest website.

For Meeting Place information call or e-mail: April D. Maduzia, 713.223.5522 ext 13 or meeting@fotofest.org

For more general information on the Meeting Place, please see the FotoFest 2006 Meeting Place page.

For information from past registrants and revievers from the Meeting Place, please see our Successes of the Meeting Place page.

SATURDAY MATINEE - Portfolio Reviews
As Part of its continuing Saturday Matinee series, FotoFest is planning a series of Mini-Meeting Place Portfolio reviews for students and graduates.

The first review, for UNDERGRADUATE students, is intended to help students interested in fine-art photography with information on preparing their portfolios for upper-level course work and graduate school applications as well as exhibitions.

Portfolios will be reviewed by Jennifer Ward, FotoFest Exhibitions Coordinator and Frank Rose, Press Coordinator as well as a guest reviewer to be announced.

Spaces are strictly limited to students enrolled in or transferring to a 4 year college or university.

Saturday, July 16, 2005 - 1pm
Space is limited to 15 people - $15
Pre-Registration required by Friday, July 8, 2005

To register click here.

A second Prtfolio review for post-Bachelor and Graduate students is scheduled for October 2005. Details on reviewers and registration will be posted in the coming months.

For questions, call FotoFest at 713.223.5522 ext 19, or visit our website at www.fotofest.org.

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It's an electrifying experience. I now understand more fully how the exhibitions and the Meeting Place serve to create vital relationships with curators, publishers and photographers from around the globe.
-David Maisel, Sausalito, CA,
2004 Meeting Place Participant

Dave Anderson, Frank Wilson
2004 Meeting Place registrant and 2006 Discoveries of the Meeting Place Artist
The Meeting Place helped me articulate ideas about my work. It allowed me to talk with people with whom it would have been difficult to meet otherwise.
-Nick Kline, New York, NY,
2004 Meeting Place Participant
A great way to set aside time to see new work. Working for a small gallery like Impressions, it can be difficult to set aside time to source new work and get out and meet new people and organizations. I've returned home feeling refreshed and full of new ideas.
-Pippa Oldfield, Impressions Gallery,
York, United Kingdom,
2004 Meeting Place Reviewer

Luis Delgado, Glissandi Three Stars
2004 Meeting Place registrant and 2006 Discoveries of the Meeting Place Artist




FotoFest's current exhibition, NAZAR - Photographs from the Arab World continues through June 11 at Fotofest's Vine Street Studios headquarters and through June 25 at the Art Car Museum. Addmission at both location is Free. For more information see the NAZAR pages on the FotoFest web site.
Anas Al-Shaikh (Bahrain)
Memory of Memories 1
from the exhibition NAZAR


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