Volunteer Profile
Carolina Alaniz

Carolina Alaniz

I became interested in photography after making two trips to Beirut and then one to Mexico City several years ago and had no photographs worth looking at (taken with a throw-a-way camera). The good thing is that those memorial images are still with me. Since then I’ve bought a camera, taken some basic classes and anxious to learn as much as possible. A friend, Linda Foot, told me about FotoFest in 2003. I attended FotoFest 2004 and simply fell in love with all the images I saw. I signed up to volunteer for FotoFest 2006 in hopes that I would be able to soak up some of the photographer’s expertise just by being near them. I signed up to volunteer for everything I possibly could, and I wanted to do it all. Working at the hotel assisting Martha Skow with the auction and Nan Stombaugh with the Meeting Place was most rewarding because I was able to experience some of the endless detail, timeless effort and dedication it took in coordinating such a successful event. I met so many photographs, and most interesting to me was to see their techniques, artistic views and observe the different types of people that make up a photographer. Working with Martha for the opening at the Gremillion and Auction Night was also rewarding. She and her worker-bees instructed us on how to unpack the photographs, where and how to place them for best effect for the buyer. It took many volunteers to make FotoFest 2006 a great success and I am very proud to have been a part of it. I will definitely continue to volunteer my time for on-going and future FotoFest events.

I am a Houstonian, attended St. Agnes Academy and University of St. Thomas and have been working at Baylor College of Medicine for 27 years. 

I enjoy the cultural arts, music, travel and photography.

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