Photo Retrospective Highlights Latino, African, Asian and Native American artists - Bronx, NY

En Foco Inc, in collaboration with Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos, presents a major exhibition celebrating the 10th Anniversary of En Foco’s New Works Photography Awards, on view through May 19th, 2007. Featuring works by 46 artists awarded over the past decade, En Foco once again establishes itself as a leader in nurturing and promoting works by artists of color nationwide.

New Works Photography Awards is an annual competitive En Foco program, selecting the most talented photographers of diverse cultures nationwide. One of the featured winners in the New Works #10 exhibition is African American artist Stephen Marc, whose unique and powerful photographic montages explore the African Diaspora.

Marc’s newest series, Walking in the Footsteps, takes us on a voyage to places historically significant to freedom seekers, and combines them with illustrations, letters written by slave owners or newspaper advertisements. In one image, the figure of a contemporary black woman with braided hair ‘stripes’ blended into her skin, is flanked by illustrations of an enslaved woman being whipped and an 1875 Harper’s Monthly rendering of an African slave march.

Alison Nordström, Curator of Photographs at George Eastman House, and guest juror for the 2006 New Works Awards, writes of Marc’s work: “he has unearthed shackles, manuscripts, tintypes, wood engravings, statues, and buildings; his method is to organize these fragments into a coherent and evocative formal whole, an act corresponding exactly to the conversion of memory and the stuff of circumstance into history.”

Stephen Marc’s photographs are on view until May 19th at the En Foco New Works #10 exhibition at Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos, along with other New Works awardees (complete list is below). The artist will be present on May 19th for an Artist Talk with 1999 New Works winner Terry Boddie and Alison Nordström, followed by a closing reception party from 5:00-7:00 pm.

All events are free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.enfoco.org

Artists: Stephen Marc, Meg Escudé, Diya Murthy, Sonya Lawyer, Emilio Bañuelos, LaToya Frazier, William Wilson. The exhibit also features artists that have participated over the past ten years: Tony González, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Terry Boddie, Tertuliano Delgado, Sheila Pree Bright, Jaishri Abichandani, Larry McNeil, Ana de Orbegoso, Don Gregorio Antón, Bonnie Portelance, Trinidad Mac-Auliffe, including a special digital presentation by Rita Rivera, Angel Chevrestt, Ivonne Maria Marcial, Rodolfo Ornelas, Daniel Salazar, Pipo Nguyen-duy, Sulaiman Ellison, André Cypriano, Suzanne Kaoru Saylor, Kapulani Landgraff, Darrell Matsumoto, Andrew Ortiz, Edwine Seymour, Lisa Jong-Soon Goodlin, Gaye Chan, Rosey Hong-An Truong, Hyoungsun Ha, Ching-Wei Jiang, Felicia Megginson, Colette Fu, Keba Konte, Liliana Rodriguez, Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, Nzingah Muhammad, Michael Gonzales, Javier Carmona, Preston Wadley, and Cyndi Prince.