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FotoFocus Patrons Experience Two Photo Biennials in One Month
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Q&A with Anissa Lewis, Artist and Wave Pool Executive Director
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Q&A with Cincinnati-based Visual Artist Gee Horton

2024 FOTOFOCUS BIENNIAL: backstories

An ambitious collaboration between FotoFocus and the region’s museums, galleries, universities, and non-traditional spaces, the FotoFocus Biennial is a month-long celebration of photography and lens-based art that unites artists, curators, and educators from around the world. The Biennial Opening Program will take place Thursday, September 26 through Saturday, September 28, 2024 with continued programming throughout the month of October.

The 2024 Biennial theme, backstories, focuses on stories that are not evident at first glance. They offer context for what happened previously or out of view, providing narratives not yet told or presented from a new perspective. Yet once told, they shed light on current circumstances and events.

FotoFocus is excited to offer numerous opportunities for participation in the 2024 Biennial, including a Call for Entry and Participating Venue projects. Applications for both opportunities are now available.

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    Kevin Moore, FotoFocus Artistic Director and Curator, discussing On the Line: Documents of Risk and Faith at the Contemporary Arts Center

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    Guests viewing On the Line: Documents of Risk and Faith at the Contemporary Arts Center

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    Street Party for Ian Strange: Disturbed Home and Annex at Art Academy of Cincinnati

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    Mayor of Cincinnati, Aftab Pureval, proclaimed October the Month of Photography during the Biennial Symposium at Memorial Hall

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    Diana Solís, Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, Lola Flash, JEB (Joan E. Biren), and Ariel Goldberg discussing Images on which to build: 1970s-1990s during the symposium at Memorial Hall

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    Audience member at CampSITE asking a question during the talk for Liz Roberts: Post Blonde

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    Guests admiring Liz Roberts: Post Blonde at CampSITE

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    Visitors at the opening of These Things Are Connected at The Carnegie

About FotoFocus

Founded in 2010 in Cincinnati, Ohio, FotoFocus is a nonprofit organization created to celebrate and champion photography as the medium of our time through programming that ignites a dialogue between contemporary lens-based art and the history of photography. FotoFocus presents lens-based signature programming including the FotoFocus Biennial, FotoFocus Symposium, FotoFocus Talks Series, and Film and Video programming.

FotoFocus has collaborated with organizations, curators, academics, and artists to present more than 750 exhibitions and programs to provide uniquely enriching access to lens-based art, film, and practices inspired by photography. FotoFocus has awarded over 600 grants to support partners presenting projects and educational programs that are accessible and engaging to the public.

The organization has brought hundreds of internationally-renowned artists to the Greater Cincinnati region, including Doug Aitken, Tina Barney, Jo Ann Callis, Gregory Crewdson, Thomas Demand, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Mitch Epstein, Roe Ethridge, Larry Fink, Paul Graham, Todd Hido, Barbara Kasten, Michael Kenna, Zoe Leonard, Duane Michaels, Laurel Nakadate, David Benjamin Sherry, Laurie Simmons, Sandy Skoglund, Alec Soth, Doug + Mike Starn, Joyce Tenneson, John Waters, and Roger Ross Williams.

FotoFocus Biennial 2016: Zanele Muholi: Personae installation at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Photo by Ryan Elliott