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Houston’s Fotofest Spotlights Russia on March 16
The 14th edition of Fotofest the Houston photo-art biennial is something special this time around: featuring three massive exhibitions of sometimes overlooked historical Russian photography from the 1950′s to today, in addition to the usual scads of shows at associated spaces both official and unofficial, all celebrating lens-based art. This year, fest founders Fred Baldwin [...]
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Fotofest Program Announced: Contemporary Russian Photography 1950–2012
Every other March, swarms of photographers and photo-related exhibitions swamp Houston’s art scene, and 2012 is one of those years: Fotofest’s 2012 Biennial focuses on Contemporary Russian Photography, blanketing the city with 200 Russian artists in seventy exhibitions. Globe-trotting FotoFest founders Wendy Watriss and Frederick Baldwin are collaborating with Russian curatorial team of Evgeny Berezner [...]