The Look3 photography festival being held in Charlottesville in June 7–9, 2012, will present over forty artists, many of whom are already well established: Alex Webb, Stanley Greene, Bruce Gilden, Lynsey Addario, Donna Ferrato and Hank Willis Thomas, among others. The fest...

07.06.2012[ read full story ]

This year’s Look3 Festival of the Photograph begins today in Charlottesville, Virginia. The product of a year of effort that started even before last years festival ended, curators Vince Musi and David Griffin, have put together a selection of work by photographers and org...

07.06.2012[ read full story ]

Alex Webb arrived on the scene at a moment when photographers were looking for new ways of seeing and working in color. While most photojournalism was still being done in black and white in the late 1970s, Webb felt like heʼd reached a dead end with the black and white photos heʼd be...

07.06.2012[ read full story ]

Donna Ferrato is an internationally-known documentary photographer. Her gifts for exploration, illumination, and documentation coupled with a commitment to revealing the darker sides of humanity, have made her a giant in the medium. Ferrato first received critical acclaim for her...

07.06.2012[ read full story ]

Stanley Greene has called a camera in the right hands the most powerful weapon ever made. Greeneʼs hands are definitely the right ones. Over the last two decades, he has brought back haunting images from troubled places like Croatia, Rwanda, and the post-Katrina Gulf Coast. His ...

07.06.2012[ read full story ]

David Doubilet has changed the way we see our planetʼs rivers and oceans and influenced the way photographs are made of it. Over the last four decades, he has brought us face to face with an underwater world of mesmerizing landscapes and mysterious creatures– coral reefs, blue-r...

07.06.2012[ read full story ]

Bruce Gilden says youʼre looking at a street photograph if you can smell the street. Gildenʼs photos stimulate all the senses. Wandering city streets around the world with a camera in one hand and a flash in the other, he captures explosive black and white images of places and peo...

07.06.2012[ read full story ]

Lynsey Addario is a documentarian of conflict and humanitarian crises reporting from some of the worldʼs roughest places — Darfur, the Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. Her work is insightful, intimate and powerful. Addario goes beyond conflict, revealing the very problems an...

07.06.2012[ read full story ]

Robin Schwartz might have created a whole new genre of photography: the interspecies family portrait. Pairing her daughter, Amelia, with a variety of animals–gibbon apes, dogs, kangaroos, llamas–Schwartz produces images that are both familiar and fantastical. In one image, a sle...

07.06.2012[ read full story ]

Camille Seamanʼs photographs exude the raw power of the natural world: icebergs rise up from the sea, rough-hewn and gigantic; storm clouds thunder across golden farmlands in middle America. Yet, whether sheʼs photographing environmental wonders or indigenous cultures around the w...

07.06.2012[ read full story ]

Ernesto Bazan was born in Palermo, on the island of Sicily, in Italy, in 1959. He received his first camera when he was fourteen years old and began photographing daily life in his native city and in the rural areas of Sicily. To Bazan, photography has been more than a profession...

07.06.2012[ read full story ]

Hank Willis Thomas is an artist who gets people talking–about pop culture, history, and race. For his series, Branded, he co-opted the language and logos of advertisements to produce images that are both personal and provocative. In one piece, the Nike swoosh symbol is etche...

07.06.2012[ read full story ]

Photojournalist Lynn Johnson is known for her intense and sensitive work, photographing the global human condition for the past 35 years. In 1975 she earned a BA in Photographic Illustration and Photojournalism at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is a regular contributor...

07.06.2012[ read full story ]