En Foco has had an amazing year. Nueva Luz was a finalist for Photography Magazine of the Year for the second year in a row; we had several fantastic artist talks; increased direct benefits to artists; and personally distributed 6,000 magazines at PDN’s Photo Expo just last month – just to name a few of [...]
Archive for November, 2008
The Little Gift that CAN (go a long way)
Posted in Community, En Foco, tagged donate, En Foco, new works, non-profit, support the arts, tax-deductible donations on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Artist Interviews
Posted in Artist's News, tagged artist interviews, Larry McNeil, Lola Flash, Miriam Romais, Nueva Luz, PhotosDie.com, podcasts, Todd Wemmer on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I dream of building a page on our website for podcasts, interviews and footage shot at our events or with our artists – but keep running out of day and time to make it happen. We joke about needing a web-savvy teenager to intern and take charge of these matters. So before we all die [...]
The Appaling Silence of Good People
Posted in Community, tagged Brooklyn, change, Community, En Foco, Fort Greene, Gentrification, Laurie Cumbo, Martin Luther King Jr, MoCADA on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I want to share an excerpt of an email by Laurie Cumbo from MoCADA in Brooklyn. It refers to a shooting on November 8th in front of their museum, the bullet that entered their offices, and the metaphorical scars left behind (thankfully, no one was hurt). I’ve long admired what Laurie has been able to [...]


