The Louisville Photo Biennial is back and this week we have separate interviews with keynote speaker Keith Carter and Biennial founder Paul Paletti. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com Thursdays at 10 am to hear Keith Waits speak with artists.
Keith Carter is an internationally respected author, educator, and workshop leader. He has published 13 books of his expressive images. In addition, two documentary films have been released: Keith Carter: The Artist Series, Ted Forbes, and A Certain Alchemy, Anthropy Arts. A fifty-year retrospective book was released fall of 2019 from University of Texas Press. Carter has been described as a "Poet of the Ordinary" by the Los Angeles Times (1994) and received the Texas Medal of Arts in 2009. Mr. Carter’s work is included in numerous private and public collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the George Eastman House, and the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University.
The 2021 Louisville Photo Biennial takes place from September 9, through November 14, 2021, at locations all throughout Louisville Metro, Southern Indiana, and Central Kentucky.
Paul Paletti is a lawyer and collector of photography who now heads the Louisville Photo Biennial. He attended Middlebury College for 3 years before transferring to the University of New Mexico where he studied with Beaumont Newhall, Van Deren Coke, and Ray Metzker and received a BFA in photography. Paletti earned a MA in photography at Central Washington University in 1975 and his JD at the University of Louisville in 1987. He has been a partner in the law firm of Sturm, Paletti, and Wilson since 1994.