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Published on: 3/2/2000
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It all started in 1982, when Baldwin and FotoFest co-founder and artistic director Wendy Watriss participated in the mother of all photo festivals, the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles, France.
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Since Baldwin and Watriss couldn't compete with France's exotic locale, they decided to distinguish Houston's extravaganza by sheer scope and ambition.
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According to the catalog introduction by Baldwin and Watriss, "Since 1986, FotoFest has worked to bring art works, artists, curators, writers, and cultural activists together in ways that would stimulate new creative energies, artistic discoveries, and new ways of connecting different cultures,."