Co-founder of FotoFest International in 1983, Wendy Watriss has worked as a freelance photographer, writer, curator, newspaper reporter, and producer of television documentaries from 1965-2017. From 1991 to 2014, she was FotoFest’s artistic and publications director, curating and organizing more than sixty international exhibitions on photography and mixed media art. Watriss conceived and produced the award-winning book Image and Memory: Photography from Latin America, 1866-1994 and several other books, as well as eleven FotoFest Biennial catalogues. With Frederick Baldwin, she co-authored Looking at the U.S. 1957-1986 and Coming to Terms: The German Hill Country of Texas.

As a documentary photographer in her own right, Watriss’ own work has been exhibited internationally; her photo documentary essays have been published worldwide in The Smithsonian, Life, Newsweek, The New York Times, GEO, Stern, among many others. In 1982, she won the World Press and Oskar Barnack Leica Awards for her photo documentation of Agent Orange. Watriss has received artist fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Along with Fred Baldwin, she co-founded FotoFest International as a platform for photographers and other artists. Photographs by Wendy Watriss and Frederick Baldwin are in the collections of The Menil Collection, Houston; Bibliothéque Nationale de France, Paris; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas at Austin.

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