Global Visions: FotoFest at 40
Various Artists
Schilt Publishing
English
Texts by Wendy Watriss, Mark Sealy and Steven Evans
Hardcover
608 pages
227 x 290 mm
2026
ISBN 9789053309650
Global Visions celebrates forty years of FotoFest. Drawing from twenty FotoFest Biennials, this volume brings together more than 350 pages of photographs spanning over a century and a half – from early analog practices to today’s expanded and digital forms. The work reflect artists’ responses to their world, engaging themes of identity, migration, memory, conflict, environment, and everyday life across cultures and geographies.
Essays by FotoFest cofounder Wendy Watriss, curator and scholar Mark Sealy, and FotoFest executive director Steven Evans frame the book’s images through personal reflection, critical inquiry, and institutional history. Together with a concise historical overview, Global Visions invites reader to loos closely, think generously, and consider photography’s enduring power to connect us.
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About the Festival
FotoFest is a Houston-based contemporary arts organization co-founded by photojournalists Frederick Baldwin and Wendy Watriss. FotoFest is dedicated to advancing photography and visual culture through the presentation of exhibitions, public programs, and publications. The examination of social, cultural, and political histories and contemporary life through the lens of photography and related media is central to FotoFest’s mission.
In addition to the organization’s year-round programming, FotoFest organizes a city-wide biennial project in the form of large-scale central exhibitions, curated lectures, performances, a symposium, and film programs. The organization also hosts several professional development programs, including annually held Meeting Place Portfolio Reviews, which host hundreds of artists and professionals working in the field of art and photography. Through its Literacy Through Photography program, FotoFest organizes K–12 classroom-based learning projects designed to encourage creativity and strengthen student writing, comprehension, and expression, reaching thousands of students. A platform for art and ideas since 1983, FotoFest is committed to promoting lasting international dialogue, cultural exchange, scholarship, and community enrichment by working with artists, audiences, academics, curators and influential figures in art, culture, and society.
https://fotofest.org/
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About the Publisher
Schilt Publishing & Gallery is a publishing house specialised in high quality photography and art books as well as a commercial gallery representing a range of top class artists from all over the world. The aim of the company is to offer a worldwide platform for its artists as well as being a family of artists in the old-fashioned way. We do not only publish books and market those worldwide, we also actively work together with our artists to help them with their careers. We search for instance for exhibition possibilities in different countries both in public and commercial galleries. Also because of that, we operate in close cooperation with galleries in other countries as well as photography festivals. We organise exhibitions in our gallery in Amsterdam about four times a year. Our online print shop offers a changing selection of beautiful, limited edition, signed artwork.
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