Houston’s Fotofest biennial 2024: Critical Geography – in pictures

Untitled – Documentation of War. By the founding members of the photographic group Shilo, who have been documenting the invasion of their homeland by Russian forces on the frontline in Ukraine since February 2022

Forest Ruins. From an ongoing project that addresses the role of cities in the climate crisis. Mbyá Guarani warriors prepare themselves to face the military police on the eve of a repossession of part of their territory in São Paulo

Exile to the Red Planet. One of a series documenting the Hong Kong government’s destruction of the ancient banyan trees in the territory, symbolic of realigning its identity with the mainland

Aqueduct 1 & 2 at The Cascades – Sylmar, CA, 2021. From a series illustrating the effects of water management and distribution from the Los Angeles Aqueduct. A complex and fragile system, it provides more than three million people with water

Modernity Blues from Sugarcane and Lightning. Examining Black kinship through a reimagined narrative of the photographer’s own family history, from West Africa to the Bay area, via forced migration to Louisiana

Talking Back To Power: Untitled No 73 Redcliffe Plantation. One of a series of self-portraits, where the photographer poses on former plantations repurposed as tourist attractions

T-Club. From a series taken in the 1980s in a club in Prague celebrating gay and lesbian partygoers

Stone Market 2019. An image of statues representing the competing religious influences in South Korea

Forgotten Struggle #28, 2011. One of an ongoing series by a Houston-based photographer, using archival shots of civil rights protestors where the text has been removed from their picket signs, to represent the omission of Black revolutionary actions from teachings in Texas schools

Beautiful, Still. A staged moment representing the photographer’s memories of growing up in Houston’s Third Ward.