“The Low Turn Row” at The Museum of Fine Arts Houston + Wendy Watriss and John Simmons
September 20 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Post-film discussion with Wendy Watriss, photographer and cofounder of FotoFest; filmmaker John Simmons; and associate producer Celia Lightfoot
Experience the stories of people who settled the U.S. frontier and their histories, which have shaped the social and political character of the nation today. Wendy Watriss and Frederick Baldwin, life partners, founders of FotoFest, and acclaimed freelance photographers, left global reporting in 1971 to explore the American experience. In an iconic series of photographs, they lived with people whose families developed an East Central Texas county. With Emmy Award–winning cinematographer John Simmons, Watriss and Baldwin revisited this area decades later, photographing and recording residents about the complexities of integration and community history.
