Max Fields is the Associate Curator and Director of Publishing at FotoFest. He has presented numerous exhibitions and has written for and overseen the production of multiple museum and gallery publications. Fields’ exhibitions and projects have been reviewed in publications including Frieze, ArtForum, Art in America, and Aperture among others. Recent projects include Public Life (2020–21), African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other (with Mark Sealy, 2020), and Gareth Long: Kidnappers Foil at the Blaffer Art Museum (2019-20). His current exhibition, In Place of an Index, is produced and presented with the 2021 Texas Biennial and is co-curated with Ryan Dennis and Evan Garza. His upcoming exhibition includes the 2022 FotoFest Biennial, co-curated with Steven Evans and Amy Sadao.

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Installation view of the exhibition, In Place of an Index at FotoFest. September 2–November 13, 2021. Presented in conjunction with the Texas Biennial 2021, A New Landscape, A Possible Horizon.

Photo courtesy of FotoFest.