Wendy Watriss

Wendy Watriss is an American photographer, curator, journalist, and writer.[1]

Wendy Watriss
Born	Wendy Watriss February 15, 1943 San Francisco, California
Nationality	American
Alma mater	New York University
Occupation	photographer, journalist, writer
Spouse(s)	Fred Baldwin
Awards	World Press Photo Awards Oskar Barnack Award Lifetime Achievement Award (Houston Fine Arts Fair)

Background

Watriss was born in San Francisco and spent most of her childhood between the East Coast of the US and Europe. Watriss graduated with honors from New York University.[2] While living in Manhattan, Watriss met Fred Baldwin, her husband and artistic collaborator.[3]

Career

As a journalist, Watriss covered the religious conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa, Women's Strike for Peace, Vietnam veterans and Agent Orange, and drug use in the US.[2] She worked as a professional photographer from 1970 to 1992.[1] Her work has been published in Life, Stern (Germany), Geo, Photoreportages (France), The New York Times, Bild (Sweden), Christian Science Monitor, among others.[4]

In 1983 Watriss co-founded FotoFest with Fred Baldwin,[5] a photography exhibition recurring annually in Houston, Texas.[4] She became the senior curator and Artistic Director of FotoFest in 1990[6] and has developed over 60 exhibitions during her tenure.[7]

Watriss is the author of several books, including Image and Memory, Photography from Latin America 1866–1994,[8] co-authored with Lois Parkinson Zamora.[7] Watriss' photography is included in collections at The Amon Carter Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Menil Collection; The Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin; Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris; Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium, as well as in private collections.[1]

Awards

Watriss has received awards from The World Press Foundation (The Netherlands), Oskar Barnack Award, Missouri School of Journalism 'Pictures of the Year', The XI International Interpress Photo and The Women's International Democratic Federation (Germany).[1] In 2013 Watriss received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Houston Fine Arts Fair.[7]

References

1. "FotoFest – About Us". www.fotofest.org. Retrieved March 18, 2016.
2. Baldwin, Frederick C; Canonne, Xavier; Watriss, Wendy; Jamdagni, Kumar; Musée de la photographie (Charleroi, Belgium) (January 1, 2009). Looking at the U.S. 1957–1986. Amsterdam: Mets & Schilt. ISBN 9789053306734. OCLC 353790871.
3. Fotofest
4. FotoFest '94, ed. (January 1, 1994). FotoFest '94: the fifth international festival of photography, November 10–30. [Houston, Tex.]: FotoFest. ISBN 0961976632. OCLC 31892473.
5. "Wendy Watriss and Fred Baldwin at Fotofest – artnet News". artnet News. March 19, 2014. Retrieved March 18, 2016.
6. Baldwin, Frederick C; Canonne, Xavier; Watriss, Wendy; Jamdagni, Kumar; Musée de la photographie (Charleroi, Belgium) (January 1, 2009). Looking at the U.S. 1957–1986. Amsterdam: Mets & Schilt. ISBN 9789053306734. OCLC 353790871.
7. "Lifetime Achievement Award Houston Fine Art Fair". www.houstonfineartfair.com. Retrieved March 18, 2016.
8. FotoFest 1992; Watriss, Wendy; Zamora, Lois Parkinson, eds. (January 1, 1998). Image and memory: photography from Latin America, 1866–1994 : FotoFest. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0292791186.

Further reading

• Rosenblum, Naomi (2014). A history of women photographers (Third ed.). New York: Abbeville. OCLC 946544670.
• Watriss, Wendy (2012). FotoFest 2012. Houston, Tex ; Amsterdam: FotoFest ; Schilt Publishing. OCLC 793359237.
• Watriss, Wendy; Baldwin, Frederick C; Dufek, Antonín (1990). Choice, nineteen contemporary Czechoslovak photographers. Prague, Czechoslovakia: Art Centrum. OCLC 22201701.