Editorial; Interview with Wendy Watriss and Fred Baldwin; Interview with Harla Kaplan.

The editor/publisher of Photo Metro, Henry Brimmer, evaluates
positively the developments of the Houston Fotofests from 1986
onwards. Topics discussed in the interviews with the three
FotoFest organisers Fred Baldwin, Wendy Watriss and Harla
Kaplan: the marketing strategy for such a big event (a 3 million
dollar event), the involvement of the Houston community, the
organizing of the Meeting Place and who to invite etc. The
magazine gives a preview of several of the presentations on show
in Houston, this year dedicated to European and Latin American
photography, contemporary as well as historical, including
documentation of 'The War of the Triple Alliance' (Uruquay,
1865-1870), 'The Formation of a Modern Aesthetic' (Bauhaus
photography from the Berlin based Bauhaus archive), 'Dutch
Manneristic and Constructed Photography', 'Modern Urban
Landscape' (by Latin American contemporary photographers),
'Black British Photographers', 'The Illegal Camera: 1944-1945'
(photographs made during WW II in the Netherlands by the
Illegale Camera photography group).