Festival X Panel Discussion   Dr. Lilly Koltun Moderator Dr. Lilly Koltun is Director General of the Portrait Gallery of Canada, a program of Library and Archives Canada. In the past, she was Director of the Documentary Art and Photography Division of Library and Archives, where she headed their extensive collection of works of art and photographs and established both the Canadian Postal Archives and the Canadian Museum of Caricature. Between 1995-2001, she was a senior manager of various policy and preservation branches and projects. Lilly Koltun has an Honours B.A. (University of Toronto), an M.A. (Courtauld Institute of Art) and a PhD (St. Andrews University, Scotland) in art history. Her doctoral thesis dealt with the history of Canadian photographic portraiture. She has authored numerous articles and publications and edited the book, Private Realms of Light, Amateur photography in Canada, 1839-1940, which has become a standard reference work. She is a frequent consultant and lecturer in Canada and internationally. She has been a graduate visiting professor at the University of British Columbia and for many years has been an adjunct research professor in art history at Carleton University. Her recent lectures and writing have addressed Whistler's influence on photographic Pictorialism, Canadian portraiture as the site of national narrative, Marshall McLuhan’s perspective on art and issues in the history of world portraiture.   Tony Fouhse Panelist Tony Fouhse is an Ottawa based editorial and commercial photographer.  He also spends a lot of time, money and emotion shooting personal work.  Since 2004 he has completed personal projects in California, Mississippi and Alabama, Ohio and New Jersey. More recently Fouhse is achieving international attention and recognition for  an ongoing project he’s shooting in his home town, portraits of crack addicts. He says of his personal work:  “I have no expectations.  All I’m trying to do with my work is to have experiences  and encounters.  If there’s any art to what I do, it’s that.  The photographs are merely a record of those experiences and encounters ”.     Michael Schreier Panelist Michael Schreier, Professional Artist, Photographer’s current work includes the artist published trilogy, Tears for an Empty Desert, The Shaman’s Witness, Storyteller/Waiting for Words and the preparation of the exhibition, Vienna Interiors/Disappearing Numbers, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, October 2008, and Storyteller/Waiting for Words, solo exhibition curated by Emily Falvey, Ottawa Art Gallery 2009. Michael Schreier is represented by Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario. Representation: National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, National Archives Photography Collection, Agnes-Etherington Art Centre, Canadian Portrait Gallery, Visual Studies Workshop,( Rochester, New York ), Light Work Workshop, Syracuse, New York, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa Art Gallery.