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Charlottesville : LOOK3 2015

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The 2015 edition of Charlottesville’s LOOK3 Festival is held from 10th to 13th June, 2015. Here’s a selection of some exhibition:
Larry Fink, Zanele Muholi, Walter Iooss, Alec Soth. 

Larry Fink
Larry Fink’s career as a professional photographer spans 55 years. He has had solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of Modern Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Art, among others. Recently, Larry had a solo show at Box Gallerie in Bruxelles, Belgium and The Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Teaching for over 52 years, Larry has been a professor of photography at Bard College since 1988.

Zanele Muholi
Zanele Muholi was born in Umlazi, Durban, South Africa in 1972, and received an MFA in Documentary Media from Ryerson University, Toronto. Zanele has documented stories of hate crimes against the gay community in order to bring the realities of “corrective rape,” assault, and HIV/AIDS to public attention. She founded Inkanyiso in 2009, a nonprofit organization concerned with visual activism and media advocacy on behalf of the LGBTI community. In 2013, she was appointed Honorary Professor of video and photography at the University of the Arts/Hochschule für Künste in Bremen, Germany. Zanele lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Walter Iooss
Steve Fine, Sports Illustrated magazine’s director of photography, refers to Walter Iooss as the foremost sports photographer of his Iooss’ work is characterized by a dynamic perspective and a notable reverence for light. From his multi-year project on Olympic athletes up to and during the 1984 games to his iconic portraiture of athletes such as Michael Jordan to his 300-plus covers for Sports Illustrated, Iooss’ work is renowned worldwide..”

“The real joy of photography is in these moments,” says Iooss. “I’m always looking for freedom, the search for the one-on-one. That’s when your instincts come out. I’ve been lucky enough to have people hire me to do that…It’s the discovery. It’s still magic.”

Alec Soth
Alec Soth is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Among numerous awards, Alec received the Guggenheim Fellowship (2013) and is a member of Magnum. In 2008, he started the publishing company Little Brown Mushroom.

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