Frederick Baldwin and Wendy Watriss, co-founders of Fotofest announced the 2012 mega-fest’s theme: Contemporary Russian Photography, and the dates of its popular portfolio review for artists, The Meeting Place: March 16 to April 3, 2012. This time around, Watriss and Baldwin will again work with independent curators Evgeny Berezner and Irina Tchmyreva, with whom they curated Fotofest’s Russian Pictorialism show in 2002, and Here Is New York, 9-11 in three Russian cities. In Houston, over 100 independently produced exhibits will accompany FotoFest’s Russian exhibitions.