Take a Look at Look3

Take a Look at Look3

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If you’re not festivaled out, you’re going to want to head down to Charlottesville in June, because Look3 seems almost like a photographer’s utopian festival dream. From the 12th to the 14th, all of Charlottesville will be taken over by photography; even the trees (Flip
Nicklin’s undersea whale images will be suspended high in the trees
along Charlottesville’s outdoor pedestrian mall).

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The event centers around three masters of the craft, who will each deliver an Inside The Actor’s Studio type lecture, albeit with NPR’s Alex Chadwick in lieu of James Lipton. This year:

Mary Ellen Mark, James Nachtwey and Joel-Peter Witkin.

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These three folks will also have shows up in Charlottesville. In addition, there will be talks, screenings, books, portfolio reviews– the works. On the evenings of the 13th and 14th there will be projected shows; one is called Shots, and the other, Works.  A partial list of the artists in Shots:

Christoph Bangert
Juliana Beasley
Lucas Foglia   
Ed Kashi & Julie Winokur
Erika Larsen
Joseph Sywenkyj
Jonathan Torgovnik

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And Works:

Andrea Modica

Marcus Bleasdale
Dan Winters

Simen Johan
Antonin Kratochvil
Balazs Gardi

See the full list here. It’s impressive.

Not to mention the workshops, which start earlier in the week.:

“The following classes will be offered June 7-12. Each participating
student will receive a Festival Pass for events June 12-14.
Housing and meals are not included in the price of tuition.
Please see the How To page for links to accommodations, including the
special housing option for Workshop participants. Click on
the course instructor names below for more info regarding
each class.”

William Albert
Allard
– Looking For Pictures: The Puzzle Making of Photography

Eugene
Richards
– Photographing People (portfolio submission
required)
David Alan
Harvey
– The Photographic Essay (portfolio submission
required)

One of the nicest things about a festival in a city of this size is that everyone can get in on the action; Dave Lutz, who’s doing marketing for the event, told me people routinely start to hang up their own imagery all over town. This event was started by Nick Nichols, who used to have slideshows in his backyard and invite all his buddies over (not unlike Casey Kelbaugh of Slideluck Potshow). He now runs the event with Jessica Nagle.

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Dave spoke to me for half an hour about the festival before he mentioned that he wasn’t a photographer, and was doing marketing for the festival on a volunteer basis, just because it’s so cool. I think this thing has a great vibe. Check out the website for all the information you could possibly want. It’s quite well organized.

Oh yeah- there are portfolio reviews! Don’t forget to go to those.

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