Fotofest 2010 - Houston

Have you ever been to Fotofest? Me neither, but this year I'm planning on making the four hour trek to Houston to see what its all about. In my mind the entire city of Houston turns into one gigantic photo exhibit. The Foto Fest 2010 is the Thirteenth International Biennial of photography and related art. This is the longest running exhibit in the U.S. focusing on Contempory U.S. Photography. Aside from their official events like the Meeting Place Portfolio Review, the FotoFest Fine Print Auction, the FotoFest Workshops, as well as Curatorial Dialogues, Symposia, and film and video programs, there are participating spaces that hang photography. For a month and a half Houstonites enjoy world class contemporary photography in every museum and non-profit art space, commercial galleries, offices, coffee shops and restaurants. That alone kind of makes me want to move to Houston.

Eikoh Hosoe (Tokyo, Japan), Man and Woman #33, 1960

Red Mummy in the White Desert, Sahara Desert, Egypt, 2008

Fotofest also showcases five major exhibitions of curatorial work. This year the exhibits are curated by Natasha Egan, Deputy Director, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, Aaron Schuman, Independent Curator, Editor and Founder, Seesaw Magazine, Charlotte Cotton, Creative Director, National Media Museum, Bradford, U.K.; former Head of the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Edward Robinson, Deputy Curator, Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gilbert Vicario, Curator, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa; Former Assistant Curator of Latin American Art and Latino Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

FotoFest at New World Museum; Art League, Houston.