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V 1 S t Al ART Woltek Wojdynski's"stage"_ <br /> PHOTO COURTESY OF'THE ARTfsT <br /> • -- .. <br /> Photo raph <br /> from, VV <br /> z <br /> 3 f <br /> FRANK In, Focus plumbs <br /> the rued_ rum during two <br /> months of events <br /> Y CHRIS ITIELLO'° g <br /> Ike most big ideas,the FRANK <br /> to Focus photography festival Z <br /> s�farted smalf a gttp show <br /> of contemporary:work in:Chapel ` <br /> Hill's FRANK Gapepi* m tie a panel " <br /> discussion or an artist talc That seed <br /> Of an idea-,bloomed intci a-garden of <br /> events and showings.Over the next two <br /> months,six exhibitions;,Il forums and . s" <br /> artist talks, 'a,d sevemt other special <br /> events with partner misms anc <br /> organizations wtlt°taioe place throughout <br /> the Trtan 1e.All events are free._ .we w <br /> }�n <br /> DocumeutananswRk present work <br /> and describe far flung. ects:Ilandsion <br /> praetitioners w tallt'aiat processes dating to- <br /> the origins of the medium.-Gallery owners•and., <br /> collectors wild discuss haw to start your own <br /> contemporary collection on a budget.You can <br /> even submit your work to be projected onto_ <br /> a parkin&deck wall in an outdoor slidesbow <br /> net The festival schedule has offerings far the _ $ <br /> st gearhe3ed f-stop nerds as well as point ; <br /> and-shoot Novices ur our thin ug it>kl�ashirtgtorr and ips programs at the University-af North Carolina <br /> From the start?artist and edncatbr Bar ` <br /> m o at Chapel Hill and artists and institutions j <br /> Y�telef>the prtxtaiyiigarT�er of FRAR3IC In it's very possible#hat(FRAM£in throughout the area,ijrroler and tankard,saw <br /> Focus,saw this snowball aiming,When the evoh*e into a'tr`ring feshvsl."_ the festivaYs varied schedule expand,almost <br /> board of the nearly three-year-old gallery, FRANK in Focus came into YwW&fter by itself Grants from,the Orange County Arts <br /> suggested she curate a show of photography, Tyroler encountered:... Commission and the Chapel <br /> she dodged the issue for a little while. Charlotte-based M Downtown Partnership <br /> "'theyd been asking me to-do,something photographer Bryce tankard helped the momentum,too. <br /> with photography since it opened,and I ve been ,at Greensbores Green T" _, "Pho is a, _ <br /> tography <br /> a bit hesitant because I knew exactly what would Hill Center for N.C.Art's -.: .. she <br /> „ ;. � °` populTSt thu;<g," says: <br /> happen,which is this festival;Tyroler says."The most recent winter show. k "P"eciple lave photography. <br /> expectations hadn'tbeen a festival at all Just asVoler had done m an+ they!take`it really <br /> She'd seen it happen before.Before Tyroler Washington with FotoHC4 w serio+asl}� 1<thank it's just., <br /> returned to her native Chapel Hill in 2009,she tankard had helped,found a matter of bringmg.them . <br /> had helped establish Washington,D.C.,s annual PhotoNOLA in New Orleans. out and saying,`Let s ge <br /> FotoDC fes&aL Originally called FotoWeekDC "We ended up talking about :F togethex Let's talk abo>ii7our <br /> this initially modest eventsprawled across the how fun it would be to do medium,- <br /> city once the idea caught oti a festival,here,So everything kind of came The festival opens with a closing reception <br /> "At first,all the galleries were kind of tagetlf�r"1 jrtvler says.,: far Tyroler's current BEl1IlVG IMPRESSIONS <br /> compete*�#eacta other aid d>;cfi4 warm to a!uinB o *o th Q -p togra0 ,w. ___.Aow at iNG-Cliape <br /> do it;Tytol says And the7i5nally wesa>d, Pro ,su ;asDuke's Center for :^ CenteE ou 5.The festivak's central <br /> Nal lust have a gallery walk'Anc now W. 1Jocumentaty Studtes,as well as.various exhibition,CHANGING I`OCtlSc THE IMAGE IN <br />