Charlottesville Festival of the Photograph

LOOK3 is hiring for a part-time Installation Specialist position.

Descriptions and application instructions can be found here.

Since 1980, the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography has awarded 32 recipients from 14 countries with financial support to finish major photographic projects. At $30,000, it’s one of the most generous grants out there. Here’s a list of past recipients (and the year they won it) who have shown at LOOK3:

Paolo Pellegrin (2006),

Pep Bonet (2005),

Brenda Ann Kenneally (2000),

Chien-Chi Chang (1999),

Enersto Bazan (1998),

James Nachtwey (1993),

Donna Ferrato (1985),

Gilles Peress (1984),

and Eugene Richards (1981).

Good luck to all the applicants for 2011. Deadline is May 31, 2011. Here’s the link to apply www.smithfund.org/public/apply/smith

2011 LOOK3 Workshop instructor and 2008 INsight Artist Mary Ellen Mark photographed Lori Berenson recently in Lima, Peru for a story for the NYTMagazine published today. The photographs, black and white of Lori napping with her son, or at the typewriter, belie the fierceness of the media frenzy surrounding Lori’s release on May 27. Here’s an excerpt from the NYTMagzine: “A horde of photographers stormed the car in which she was driven away from the prison — three cameramen thrust themselves into the backseat; more jumped onto the roof, leaving dents; a TV van crashed into the back. Another gantlet awaited her outside her apartment building, surging against the surrounding gate with such pressure that it buckled.”

For the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/magazine/06berenson-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine