The 2015 edition of Charlottesville’s LOOK3 Festival is held from 10th to 13th June, 2015. Here’s a selection of some exhibition:
Vincent J. Musi, David Alan Harvey, Monica Haller and the Veterans Book Project, Piotr Naskreck.
Vincent J. Musi
Vincent J. Musi likes to talk to an animal right before he shoots it.
A photographer specializing in animal portraiture for National Geographic magazine, Vincent’s work takes a quirky look at our relationship to animals through the world of exotic pets,
domestication, and cognition. Over the last 30 years he has also taken the approach of a generalist, with photographic essays covering volcanoes, mummies, landscapes, sports, culture, hurricanes, history, and archaeology.
His path to photographing animals began when he bought a house that was inhabited by many, many creatures. He has since learned to be an animal photographer and likes it, despite the fact that his subjects growl, bark, roar, bite, hiss, claw, poop, and pee on him.
David Alan Harvey
David Alan Harvey‘s work has been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Biblioteque Nacional, Paris, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts among other venues. Some of his most prolific essays have appeared in National Geographic magazine since 1973.
As a popular mentor for young photographers, Harvey founded Burn Magazine, an award-winning online and in print journal for emerging photographers. He is currently the publisher of BurnBooks, a press specializing in limited edition art books. David is a member of the Magnum Photos cooperative and lives in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Monica Haller and the Veterans Book Project
Monica Haller works with photography, design, sound, installation, and writing. Her work explores violent and non-violent activities in human and environmental systems. Recent projects include Riley and his story and the Veterans Book Project, both focused on the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Monica’s current research and work involves soil, geologic time, industry, wetlands, and lives of coastal Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta.
The Veterans Book Project, which will be presented at LOOK3, is a library of books authored collaboratively by Monica and dozens of people who have been affected by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the printed format, the books provide a place or “container” that slows down and materializes the great quantity of ephemeral image files that live on veterans’ hard drives and in their heads. Each book re-deploys volatile images with the aim of rearticulating and refashioning memories, standing both independently of and in concert with the larger collection.
Piotr Naskrecki
LOOK3 is delighted to welcome Piotr Naskrecki as the 2015 TREES Artist. Piotr is a photographer and entomologist based at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology.
