Event Description:
- Presented by Bayou City Waterkeeper, FotoFest, & Latino Outdoors
- Date and Time: September 19, 2026 | 8:30 am gather, 9:00 am start
- Location: Robert C. Stuart Park
- Admission: Free with registration
- Recommended for: All ages and photography experience levels
Join Bayou City Waterkeeper, FotoFest, and Latino Outdoors for a guided photo walk exploring the connections among water, birds, people, and place.
Participants will walk through Robert C. Stuart Park, an area that provides habitat for resident and migratory birds while also demonstrating how natural and nature-based infrastructure can help manage stormwater, reduce flooding, improve water quality, and support healthier ecosystems.
No photography experience or specialized equipment is required. Participants may use a phone, digital camera, film camera, or simply join the walk to observe. Along the route, guides will invite participants to look closely at the wetland landscape: the movement of water, the plants and wildlife that depend on it, evidence of human intervention, and the relationships connecting the park to the surrounding city.
The program is presented in connection with FotoFest’s fall exhibition, Across the Americas: FotoFest, Latin America and Latino Cultures in the United States. Drawing from the exhibition’s consideration of landscape, territory, identity, history, and extraction, the walk will explore photography as a way to document place, reflect on environmental change, and imagine more reciprocal relationships between people and the natural world.
This event also overlaps with Latino Conservation Week, a national initiative of Hispanic Access Foundation that celebrates Latino communities’ relationships with the outdoors and their leadership in protecting land, water, air, and wildlife.
Together, participants will consider what becomes visible when we slow down and pay attention, and how images can help us better understand, value, and protect the shared habitats around us. After the walk, participants will be invited to stay for refreshments and a kid-friendly activity station. This event is free with registration.
What to Bring
- A phone, digital camera, or film camera
- Binoculars, if available
- Comfortable walking shoes
- Drinking water
- Sunscreen
- A hat, sunglasses, or other sun protection
- Weather-appropriate clothing
Photography equipment and binoculars are optional. Participants are welcome to attend simply to walk, observe, and learn.
About Across the Americas: FotoFest, Latin America and Latino Cultures in the United States
FotoFest’s fall 2026 exhibition, Across the Americas: FotoFest, Latin America and Latino Cultures in the United States, explores FotoFest’s long-standing engagement with artists across Latin America and Latino cultures in the U.S. Featuring work by more than forty artists, the exhibition embraces diverse photographic approaches to history, place, imagination, and identity.
Organized into four thematic chapters, Image and the Constructed Self; Memory, Archive, and History; Place, Territory, and Transformation; and Experimental Worlds: Concept and Fiction, the project brings together documentary, conceptual, and experimental practices that illuminate shared histories and cultural dialogues across Latin America and Latino cultures in the U.S.
The galleries will not be organized strictly around medium or geography. Instead, the historical and contemporary works will present a multi-faceted conversation between different times and histories. Unexpected pairings will revisit many of the ways FotoFest has fostered diverse discourse between generations of artists, national histories, and photographic traditions over the past four decades in Latin America and Latino Cultures in the United States.
Bayou City Waterkeeper in partnership with FotoFest, & Latino Outdoors Houston Chapter as part of part of Houston Audubon's Bird Week
Date & time:
September 19, 2026 - June 21, 2026
Location:
Robert C. Stuart Park
Yes
FREE with Registration
