Every summer, a healthy chunk of the photography world descends on Charlottesville, Virginia for several days of good, wholesome, photo loving.  What started as a backyard slideshow at the home of Nick Nichols has blossomed into LOOK3: Festival of the Photograph http://look3.org, with dozens of exhibits, talks and workshops, and participation from some of the most recognized names in photography.  This year, the festival is June 11-13, and if you love photography and have a way to get there, you should make it your business to do so. Get Tickets.  

But, let’s just say you can’t get there.  

Now you can get your images displayed at the festival and online, thanks to a partnership between LOOK3 and PhotoShelter.  We’re supporting the new LOOK3 YourSpace Online Exhibit.  For the first time, photographers around the world can submit their work through PhotoShelter, where special guest curators like David Griffin, Director of Photography at National Geographic, will review your work.  The editors’ favorites will be chosen for display on large screens in the center of the festival via Leica projectors, and in slideshows online at the Look3 YourSpace PhotoShelter-powered website.  

Plus, anyone who likes the photos can grab and embed the LOOK3 slideshow in their own blog or website, so this is a way for your photos to get seen in many different places.        

LOOK3 YourSpace Online Gallery – Images by Festival of the Photograph

This year, the YourSpace theme is “fortune” meaning “chance or luck as an external, arbitrary force affecting human affairs; a large amount of money or assets.” Very fitting for the way the world has been turned upside down in the past few months.  Per LOOK3: “What does this word mean? Who is truly fortunate? How does fortune (or chance and luck) play out in the photographic process? What photographs can you share that demonstrate the pliability of this theme?”  I can’t wait to see how this theme is manifested through the eyes of the world’s photographers.  

Andrew and I will be road tripping to Charlottesville for the festival too, helping YourSpace participants in Charlottesville get their images into the slideshows too.  

Plus, we’ll be checking out a ton of PhotoShelter members’ talks and exhibits, including Thomas Mangelsen, David Alan Harvey & Burn Magazine’s announcement of the Emerging Photographers Fund $10,000 prize winner, the Redux American Youth Book exhibit and at least 13 more exhibiting photographers from our community, including Melissa Farlow, Vincent Laforet, Chris Bickford, and Joel Sartore.

So, how do you get your images showcased?  Easy.  

1. Create a free PhotoShelter Starter account if you don’t already have one.
2. Upload a selection of images to PhotoShelter.
3. Within PhotoShelter, create a gallery of 1-3 photos that represent the theme: “fortune”
4. Remaining within PhotoShelter, click “LOOK3 YOURSPACE” under the “Community” tab. Choose the gallery you created, and click “Submit Gallery to LOOK3.”

Images will then be sent directly to LOOK3 curators for review.

Reviews and updates will happen in advance of LOOK3, and throughout each day of the festival. Be sure to visit the YourSpace Online Website to see if your work was selected!

 

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