We are thrilled to announce today our 2012 artist lineup! Please join us June 7-9 in Charlottesville, VA as we celebrate: Alex Webb, Donna Ferrato, Stanley Greene, David Doubilet, Lynsey Addario, Hank Willis Thomas, Robin Schwartz, Camille Seaman, and Bruce Gilden.

Tickets have sold out every year so be sure to get your passes now

LOOK3 takes over the Charlottesville Pavilion with 2 nights of projections from emerging and established photographers working around the globe. We’re tremendously excited to announce this year’s 40 presenting artists!

Finish this sentence: What is the truth…?

The Truth Booth will be inflating on the front lawn of the Mcguffey Art Center for the 2012 Festival. The booth is much like a photo booth, so sit down, and start talking, the only rule being to finish the statement: “The truth is…” We promise a priest isn’t on the other side.

All of the responses will be catalogued and appear on the website. The goal of the project is to collect a diverse number of responses to the statement, creating a portrait that spans demographics across the globe.

For the second year in a row, BD will exhibit the winners of the 2012 Hope for a Healthy World competition.

Lynn Johnson has been quitely shooting stories for the National Geographic for 20 years. LOOK3 proudly hosts a retrospective of Lynn’s published stories with NGM.\

Chris Boot curates 60 years of Aperture Books at LOOK3!

The LOOK3 Festival will be hosting the Aperture at Sixty Library. Aperture, a quarterly periodical, founded in 1952 is being brought back together in Charlottesville in celebration of Aperture’s sixtieth anniversary. The opportunity to showcase the highlights of Aperture’s storied publishing program and its contribution to the evolving narrative over the pasty sixty years is tremendous. The library will function much like a turn of the century library; visitors will be able to pick up and handle the books and explore the curated exhibit at their leisure. The Aperture at Sixty Library not only highlights the many contributions that the Aperture photographers have made over the past sixty years, but it also recognizes the importance of the periodical and the printed page as a forum for the advancement of photography.

Selections of Lynsey Addario’s career will be on display at LOOK3.

Bruce Gilden’s exhibit will be a 100 foot mural of photographs

At 8′ wide, these are as close to scale as we can get. LOOK3 is proudly hosting Camille Seaman’s exhibit “The Last Iceberg” at Chroma Arts Gallery.

Hank Willis Thomas brings his wit and provocative images to the downtown mall in Charlottesville where selections of work will be on display across from the Free Speech wall.

Smokin' Joe, 1978. Images courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery.

Robin Schwartz invented the inter-species portrait!