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Ten by Ten Tour with Max Fields

Sunday, November 6 | 2PM

The Silos at Sawyer Yards

1502 Sawyer St, Houston, TX 77007

Join FotoFest Associate Curator Max Fields for an in-depth curatorial tour of the FotoFest Biennial 2022 exhibition Ten by Ten: Ten Reviewers Select Ten Portfolios from the Meeting Place 2020–21. Fields will discuss the included artists and the diverse range of topics addressed in the works. We recommend arriving early to watch the video works on view before the tour begins.

This program is free and open to the public, but space is limited. Visit the link below to register.

About Ten by Ten: Ten Reviewers Select Ten Portfolios from the Meeting Place 2020–21
FotoFest’s International Meeting Place Portfolio Review, held in conjunction with its citywide Biennial, is the largest and longest-running event of its kind in the United States. Every two years, 150 curators, editors, and photography and fine art experts travel to Houston to review 450 photographic portfolios by emerging and established artists and photographers from around the globe. The Ten by Ten exhibition is a celebration of this important site of discourse and display, highlighting the works of 10 artists, nominated by 10 guest reviewers, whose works exemplify the broad range of contemporary photographic practice.

Each of the artists in the exhibition is represented by the presentation of a single photographic series from their oeuvre. Diverse topics ranging from queer rights and Indigenous representation in media to unregulated commercial development and the erasure of complex histories are examined by the artists and further contextualized by a series of texts penned by the guest reviewers who selected them. The broad range of subjects featured in the exhibition reflects not only current attitudes in photographic praxis, but also those important issues and topics that appear in news headlines and frame the contemporary moment. 

About Max Fields

Max Fields is the Associate Curator and Director of Publishing at FotoFest. He has presented numerous exhibitions and has written for and overseen the production of multiple museum and gallery publications. Recent projects include Public Life (2020–21), African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other (with Mark Sealy, 2020), and Gareth Long: Kidnappers Foil at the Blaffer Art Museum (Houston, 2019–20). His recent exhibition, In Place of an Index, was produced and presented with the 2021 Texas Biennial and was co-curated with Ryan Dennis and Evan Garza.

FotoFest Biennial 2022 Media Sponsor:

Glasstire

Image: Curatorial Tour of the FotoFest Biennial 2022 If I Had a Hammer with Associate Curator Max Fields. Houston, TX. Courtesy of FotoFest. Image: Tere Garcia.