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Juan Sánchez, new work: The Unknown Boricuas + Prisoner: Abu Ghraib. February 12 – March 27 at Taller Puertoriqueño's Lorenzo Homar Gallery in Philadelphia.
Víctor Vázquez and others, in Printable. On view through March 9 at Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
Adál (Nueva Luz vol 9#2 and 5#2; Island Journey exhibition) has a new exhibition, PLEASE TOUCH y otras ideas, opening January 8 at Casa Aboy, PR. Runs through February 5.
Congratulations to Alejandro Chaskielberg (nominated by En Foco) for winning the 2009 Leopold Godowsky, Jr Color Photography Award; Osamu James Nakagawa (Nueva Luz 6#3) awarded this year's Guggenheim Fellowship; Hiroshi Watanabe (Nueva Luz 10#3) for the 2009 Hearst 8x10 Photography Biennial; Martin Weber (Nueva Luz 12#3) for the 2008 Silver Eye Center for Photography Fellowship; Graciela Iturbide (Latina, a 1988 En Foco exhibition) for the 2008 Hasselblad Foundation Award.
Inside News
Nueva Luz is awarded two 2009 Ippies Awards for Best Photo Essays: 1st Place Rania Matar, and 2nd Place Chuy Benitez
Nueva Luz is a Finalist for the 2009 Lucie Awards Lucie Awards "Photography Magazine of the Year!"
Read about En Foco's early days as experienced by David Gonzalez, in "From the Archive: Bronx Street Art", his latest post on Lens (NY Times photojournalism blog).
En Foco’s Touring Gallery & Edenwald Library present:
Ray Llanos, Caribbean Celebrations
Join us for this exhibition, free and open to the public

Dates:
February 9 - April 3, 2010

Location:
Edenwald Library / NYPL
1255 East 233rd Street (at DeReimer Ave)
Bronx, NY 10466 718/798-3355
www.nypl.org/locations/edenwald

Exhibition Hours:
M & Th, 10:00am-8:00pm; Tu & W, 10:00am-6:00pm;
F & Sat, 10:00am--5:00pm

For a PDF of the Postcard Invitation, click HERE to download.
School groups are welcome! Student/educator brochure coming soon

This 2009-2010 Touring Gallery exhibition is supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Bronx Council on the Arts, the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, WNYC.org, members, subscribers and friends.


Photo: © Ray Llanos, Niños de Colores, Caribbean Celebrations series.
 
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En Foco is a non-profit organization that nurtures and supports contemporary fine art and documentary photographers of diverse cultures, primarily U.S. residents of Latino, African and Asian heritage, and Native Peoples of the Americas and the Pacific. Founded in 1974, it makes their work visible to the art world, yet remains accessible to under-serviced communities. Through exhibitions, workshops, events and publications, En Foco provides professional recognition, honoraria and assistance to photographers as they grow into different stages of their careers.

Programs are supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Artography: Arts in a Changing America (a grant and documentation program of Leveraging Investments in Creativity, funded by the Ford Foundation), the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Bronx Council on the Arts and JP Morgan Chase, the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Canson Infinity, Lowepro, Bogen, Archival Methods, Fuji Film, Print File, Modernage Custom Digital Imaging Labs, WNYC.org, members, subscribers and friends.