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FotoFest Biennial 2026 Keynote Address

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Thu. Mar. 12, 2026 7 PM-8 PM
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Location Main Campus | Law Building

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FotoFest Biennial 2026 Keynote Address

Date & Time

Thu. Mar. 12, 2026 7 PM-8 PM
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Location Main Campus | Law Building

Parking at Beck Garage
Drop off at Beck Building

FotoFest presents the keynote address for the 2026 FotoFest Biennial, "Global Visions: FotoFest at 40." Professor Mark Sealy, executive director of Autograph, London, is a leading voice in photography and visual culture. His work has shaped critical conversations around race, representation, history, and the social role of images worldwide. This address offers a moment of reflection within the landmark anniversary edition and underscores FotoFest's ongoing commitment to global perspectives in photography.

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About the Speaker
Professor Mark Sealy (PhD) is executive director of Autograph and professor of Photography, Rights, and Representation at University of the Arts London, London College of Communication. His work examines the relationships between photography and art, social change, identity politics, race, and human rights. He
was awarded the Hood Medal by the Royal Photographic Society in 2007 and appointed MBE in 2013 and OBE in 2022 for services to art and photography. Sealy has served as an advisor to institutions including Tate, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Art Fund, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, World Press Photo, and the International Centre of Photography, New York. His recent publications include Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial TimePhotography: Race, Rights, and Representation, and A Lens on Liberation: Photography as Resistance

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Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from H-E-B; Sempra Foundation; the Brown Foundation, Inc.; the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; the Joe Barnhart Foundation; the Cockrell Family Fund; the CFP Foundation; the Claire & Theodore Morse Foundation; the Junior League of Houston, Inc.; and additional generous donors.
 
Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Medha and Shashank Karve; Virginia and Ira Jackson; Jesse H. Jones II; the CFP Foundation; the Favrot Fund; gifts in memory of John Wynne; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.