Congratulations to Kari Wehrs for being selected for Runner-Up for CENTER’s Project launch Grant recognizing her project, Shot. The Project Launch is granted to outstanding photographers working on a fine art series or documentary project. The grant includes a cash award to help complete or disseminate the works, as well as providing a platform for […]
Portrait
Thesis Project: Antonia Stoyanovich and Cassandra Klos
The American South and the American West occupy places of mythic proportions in our collective imagination. Our ideas of these places are laden with a complex set of preconceptions informed by their unique qualities and the tall tales we’ve been told about them. The artists presented here, Antonia Stoyanovich and Cassandra Klos, both explore and […]
Thesis Project: Hannah Altman
Hannah Altman’s work brings to mind collective identity and the intricate bonds we share within our chosen community. Her visual poetics bring to life photos that extend beyond what we might see in her images. Her sensitivity to light, gesture, and expression bring out the familial recollections she talks about in her artist statement and […]
Thesis Project: Phillipa Klaiber
In my mind, the place described in Phillipa Klaiber‘s Vorest hovers somewhere between the realms of truth and fantasy. Recontextualizing authentic historical documents alongside her own photographs, the artist blurs the line between past and present- what is and what was- as she explores her own relationship to this place as both insider and outsider. The resulting narrative […]
Cathy Spence: Crooked Eye
Cathy Spence came to Houston an the FotoFest Reviews with a poignant and personal project, Crooked Eye, that captures the normal life of a boy with oculocutaneous albinism while focusing on the struggles of both albinism and adolescence. The work is painterly, quiet, and sensitive, as a mother’s gaze finds beauty and mystery in the […]
B. Proud: Transcending Love: Portraits of Transgender and Gender Non-conforming Couples
Prior to the FotoFest Reviews, the Society of Photographic Education had a conference in Houston with four days of networking, lectures, seminars, and portfolio reviews. One of the guest speakers was Zackary Drucker, an American trans woman multimedia artist, LGBT activist, actress, and television producer. She was introduced by Jess Dugan and B.Proud. The next […]