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The Lens

The Lens is the FotoFocus editorial platform, highlighting our programming and featuring in-depth conversations on photography and the moving image drawn from perspectives and insights in our community, throughout our region, and around the globe.


Film Screening: Rafaela

Posted on September 9, 2024

Film screening of Rafaela with guests Judith Rodriguez (actress) and Cristian Mojica (screenwriter). Continue reading Film Screening: Rafaela

Flowers in the Sidewalk Opening Reception

Posted on August 20, 2024

Visionaries and Voices will host an opening reception for the exhibition, Flowers in the Sidewalk, which will include performances by Leif Fairfeild and Fred Prince's Jazz Quartet Additional Information: The Visionaries and Voices studios are inclusive and accessible. We are additionally receptive to any special requests needed to access the workshop. Continue reading Flowers in the Sidewalk Opening Reception

Performance for Southern Democratic

Posted on August 19, 2024

Poet Harris Wheeler, Lexington, KY, and Musician James Meade, Cincinnati, OH, respond to exhibition themes from Southern Democratic through a performance under The Carnegie’s rotunda Continue reading Performance for Southern Democratic

Biennial Symposium

Posted on August 16, 2024

The FotoFocus Symposium is designed to bring together Participants to discuss the backstories theme and its relationship to lens-based art and the world today. These conversations foster timely and in-depth dialogue around art in the current social and political climate. 12pm Light Bites 1pm Memory Fields Conversation Sso-Rha Kang, Curator of Memory Fields, Curator at The Carnegie, Cincinnati, OH and Artist Jesse Ly, Dayton, OH 1:30pm Chip Thomas and the Painted Desert Project Panel Moderated by Kevin Moore, FotoFocus Artistic Director and Curator, New York, NY; with panelists Chip Thomas, Artist, Flagstaff, AZ; Ken Ogawa, Maker/Artist, Columbia, MO; and Sunny Dooley, Diné Hozhojii Teller, Creator, and Poet, Diné Nation,... Continue reading Biennial Symposium

Members Opening Reception & Curator Talk for Ming Smith: Transcendence and August Moon

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5pm Members Opening Reception 6pm Curator Talk with Brooke A. Minto, Executive Director and CEO at the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, for Ming Smith: Transcendence and August Moon. Additional Information: Wheelchair accessible. ASL interpretation available by advance request. For more information, please visit the CMA website. Continue reading Members Opening Reception & Curator Talk for Ming Smith: Transcendence and August Moon