Let Them Be Free
A Photography exhibit Juried By // Deji Osinulu
FOTOFEST // 2020
A Photography exhibit Juried By // Deji Osinulu
FOTOFEST // 2020
Best in Show - "Hidden" by Paula Hammon
2nd Place - "Loop" by Rusy Singh
3rd Place - "The Unseen" by Hector Guerra
2nd Place - "Loop" by Rusy Singh
3rd Place - "The Unseen" by Hector Guerra
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A 2nd Cup has always been about the themes of this year’s FotoFest - Rights, Liberty and Representation. Focusing on Human Trafficking, A 2nd Cup was created to provide an avenue for generating awareness of human trafficking in Houston, and working towards the abolition of slavery in our city. They are also developing resources that help create a second chance for survivors, which is why this year’s show is benefiting Brazen Table, a culinary training program for human trafficking survivors.
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Juror // Deji Osinulu is a professional photographer who grew up in Lagos, Nigeria in a family of photography lovers. He moved to Houston in 1996 to attend graduate school and has made Houston home ever since. He got back into photography about 15 years ago after buying an old camera off a friend, and what started as a hobby soon became a full time profession. He is currently working on a project called Pluribus, a series of portraits exploring questions surrounding the phrase "e pluribus unum". Since almost all of us either descend from immigrants or are immigrants, what does it mean to assimilate vs integrate? What is gained by or lost in that process to each succeeding generation from the generations that came before them? While our exhibit is open to all photographers about the contexts of their choosing. These perspectives make him the perfect Juror for FotoFest // 2020 which is focusing on artists of Africa and it’s diaspora.
