Preparing to head out to Charlottesville VA for the LookBetween Festival. It’s a awesome, invitation-only event to celebrate and promote some of the world’s most promising emerging photographers. It’s a spin-off of  Look3: Festival of the Photograph, a unique event initiated by Nick Nichols from National Geographic that strikes me as one of the truest celebrations of photography in existence. If you’ve never been there, you should consider checking it out in 2011.

Here’s some more information on LookBetween: LOOK3 is hosting an experimental two night event to present the work of 90 innovative photographers on a farm 30 minutes west of Charlottesville.  The 90 artists showing work were asked to participate by experts in this field such as PDN, Burn Magazine, Humble Arts, Getty Images, VII, and others.  This initiative, which we are calling LOOKbetween, is designed to showcase early-career talent and engage the presenting artists with media professionals on practices and trends influencing the direction of photography today.  We want to turn the traditional mentorship model on its head and let the established professionals hear what the next generation of photographers has to say.  Thank you to BD and National Geographic for supporting LOOKbetween. Each night will feature outdoor projections of work by the invited emerging photographers in attendance. Showcasing the work of these talented photographers is a main focus of the weekend. However, LOOKbetween is also designed to create networking opportunities and be a forum for the exchange of ideas between professionals and those early in their career. Saturday daytime will be devoted to discussion about important issues in photography.

In addition to all the other great stuff, we’ll be announcing the winner of the 2010 PHOTOCRATI FUND GRANT.

They’ll also be announcing winners of grants from Burn Magazine and Luceo Images. All-in-all, it should be an amazing time. Kudos to Nick and Andrew and Jenna and the others who imagined and created this event.