An ambitious collaboration between FotoFocus and the region’s museums, galleries, universities, and non-traditional spaces, the FotoFocus Biennial is a month-long celebration of photography and lens-based art that unites artists, curators, and educators from around the world. Now in its seventh iteration, the 2024 FotoFocus Biennial encompasses 107 projects at 86 Participating Venues across Greater Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus, and Northern Kentucky — the largest of its kind in America. The 2024 Biennial theme, backstories, focuses on stories that are not evident at first glance. These stories offer context for what happened previously or out of view, providing narratives not yet told or presented from a new perspective. Yet once told, they shed light on current circumstances and events. The FREE Biennial Passport provides access to special exhibitions during the month of October; invitations to members-only events; and entry into the FotoFocus Biennial Opening Program. The Biennial Passport will once again be free in 2024. Get the Free Passport here. https://www.fotofocus.org/

Upcoming Highlights

Curator Tour: Southern Democratic 
November 9, noon–1:30pm | The Carnegie

Owning Your Story: Counter-narrative and Storytelling as Tools for Advocacy
November 13, 6–7:30 | DAAP Cafe 

Snapshots of Over-the-Rhine Curator Talk with Anne Delano Steinert
December 18, 6:30–7:30 | Over-the-Rhine Museum 

Poetry Reading: JJJJJerome Ellis 
November 13, 5:30 | Elliston Poetry Room, 646 Langsam Library

JJJJJerome Ellis (any pronoun) is a disabled Grenadian-Jamaican-American animal, artist, and person who stutters. Through music, performance, writing, video, and photography, the artist asks what stuttering can teach us about justice. Born in 1989 in Groton, Connecticut, USA the artist lives in Norfolk, Virginia, USA with their wife, poet-ecologist Luísa Black Ellis. JJJJJerome dreams of building a sonic bath house!