FotoFest 1992 Biennial at the George R. Brown Convention Center

Fred Baldwin and Wendy Watriss editing slides in their home dark-room in 1981,soon after their arrival in Houston

FotoFest co-founders Fred Baldwin and Wendy Watriss installing an exhibitionduring the first FotoFest in 1986

Fred Baldwin in China for the FotoFest Meeting Place Beijing 2007

In 1994 at the George R. Brown Convention Center, FotoFest staged the firstpublic exhibition in decades of the “first photograph” by Niecephore Niepce. Thepiece was transported from the Ransom Center in Austin in an armored car and wasaccompanied by armed guards.

Wendy Watriss and master Czech photographer Pavel Banka in 2004

Wendy Watriss, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C., 1983-1986, silvergelatin print

While photographing rural Texas counties for their book, Fred Baldwin and WendyWatriss lived in a small trailer towed by Fred’s Mercedes convertible and parkedoften in an obliging farmer’s pasture, 1971-1972. Here, they parked along sidethe road in rural Grimes County, Texas.