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Records that depict or feature Omar Afra

The smallest of these aids, and intentionally so. An object appears only where its own held record names him: a photographer's caption, a broadcaster's segment note, or outside reporting the archive already catalogues as being about him. Identity is never inferred from a filename or a thumbnail, and unpublished production correspondence is not media.

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Verified records
5
Photographs
1
Broadcast audio
3
Outside reporting

Photographs — 5

Omar Afra and Mayor Annise Parker FPSF 2013 MARK C AUSTIN HR-7285. Photograph by Mark C. Austin, Free Press Summer Festival 2013.
Omar Afra and Mayor Annise Parker FPSF 2013 MARK C AUSTIN HR-7285 · Mark C. Austin · All rights reserved, Mark C. Austin Photography. Displayed from the photographer's own Flickr host with credit and link; no copy is held by the archive.
Omar Afra and Mayor Annise Parker FPSF 2013 MARK C AUSTIN HR-7290. Photograph by Mark C. Austin, Free Press Summer Festival 2013.
Omar Afra and Mayor Annise Parker FPSF 2013 MARK C AUSTIN HR-7290 · Mark C. Austin · All rights reserved, Mark C. Austin Photography. Displayed from the photographer's own Flickr host with credit and link; no copy is held by the archive.
Omar Afra FPSF 2013 MARK C AUSTIN HR-7295. Photograph by Mark C. Austin, Free Press Summer Festival 2013.
Omar Afra FPSF 2013 MARK C AUSTIN HR-7295 · Mark C. Austin · All rights reserved, Mark C. Austin Photography. Displayed from the photographer's own Flickr host with credit and link; no copy is held by the archive.
Omar Afra FPSF 2013 MARK C AUSTIN HR-7294. Photograph by Mark C. Austin, Free Press Summer Festival 2013.
Omar Afra FPSF 2013 MARK C AUSTIN HR-7294 · Mark C. Austin · All rights reserved, Mark C. Austin Photography. Displayed from the photographer's own Flickr host with credit and link; no copy is held by the archive.
Omar Afra and Mayor Annise Parker FPSF 2013 MARK C AUSTIN HR-7298. Photograph by Mark C. Austin, Free Press Summer Festival 2013.
Omar Afra and Mayor Annise Parker FPSF 2013 MARK C AUSTIN HR-7298 · Mark C. Austin · All rights reserved, Mark C. Austin Photography. Displayed from the photographer's own Flickr host with credit and link; no copy is held by the archive.

Audio and outside reporting

2013-11-18
HISD Investigation and Expanding Free Press Summer Fest

Broadcast audio · Houston Public Media · Houston Matters

Free Press Houston editor Omar Afra on wanting a three-day festival in 2014.

2017-12-08
Day for Night festival springs from the unconventional mind of Omar Afra

Outside reporting · Houston Chronicle

Daily-paper profile of the festival's founding and its downtown site.

2013
Mastermind talks pulling off Free Press Summer Fest

Outside reporting · Houston Chronicle

Profile of the organizer behind a festival the paper calls Houston's biggest summer event, credited with putting the city on the festival map.

2014-10-31
Meet the 40 Under 40 who started Houston's largest music festival

Outside reporting · Houston Business Journal

The paper's 2014 40 Under 40 selection, identifying him as founder of Free Press Houston and Free Press Summer Fest.

2026 coverage of the archive

Later coverage drawing on the Day for Night collection, recorded separately from archival holdings.

2026-09-22
Festival Producer Omar Afra Reopens the Books on Houston's Day for Night

Big News Network · Syndicated coverage · Source credited by publisher: Busines NewsWire.

Syndicated coverage of Omar Afra’s reconstruction of the Day for Night production record, drawing on the Free Press Houston Archive and identifying his work as founder of Live Index.

2026-09-22
Inside the Economics of Day for Night: What It Actually Cost to Build a Festival Around Aphex Twin, Björk and Nine Inch Nails

The Hype Magazine · Rukhsar SEO · Published coverage.

An account of production costs, audience geography and booking risk, drawing on the archive and Afra’s retrospective estimates; it identifies him as the festival’s cofounder and Live Index publisher.

2026-09-21
Okay So Day for Night Was Actually Kind Of Insane, Actually

Nerdbot · Abdullah Jamil · Published retrospective.

A retrospective on the festival’s music and art programming and the recovered schedules, site plans, staff records and articles brought together in the Free Press Houston Archive.

Canonical record: Omar Afra