Lola Flash, "The Weight of Silence" (2026), from the series syzygy, the vision (2019–ongoing) (image courtesy the artist and FotoFest Biennial 2026) HOUSTON — “If you think there are too many pictures here, you’re right,” joked Wendy Watriss, photographer and FotoFest co-founder, at the biennial’s opening reception on March 7. For the show’s 40th anniversary, organizers mounted a massive retrospective featuring over 450 artists from 58 countries. “We wanted people to see the breadth and the scope of FotoFest, from China to Argentina, from Russia to England, from Canada to Africa, and on and on,” said Watriss.  She founded FotoFest with her husband, photographer Frederick Baldwin, after the two visited the Rencontres d'Arles in southern France in 1983. During their travels, the pair encountered groundbreaking photography that had never been shown in the United States.…