ETSU Photo News

LOOK3, the annual 3-day festival of peace, love and photography in Charlottesville, Virginia, has just announced its lineup of scheduled speakers and they are impressive to say the least. Photographers Gregory Crewdson, Richard Misrach, Carrie May Weems, Michael Nichols, Susan Meiselas and Josef Koudelka will all be presenting lectures and exhibitions of their work. This is probably the most impressive list of artists to speak at a single event this year, so mark your calendars for June 13 - 15, 2013. Tickets are available for purchase now and students can get a complete festival pass for only $75. All exhibitions are free and open to the public throughout the month of June, so don't miss out on this incredible (and somewhat local) opportunity. More information can be found at the LOOK3 website, here .

ETSU Alum Eric Baden (MFA 2003) will be exhibiting photographs from his time in Peru in the exhibition In Between: Time in the Desert at the Holden Gallery at Warren Wilson College. The show opens this Friday, February 1st from 6-8pm and Baden will be giving an artist's talk at 6:30pm. For more information, check out the gallery's page here .

Photographs from Point Pleasant , an ongoing project by Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography Joshua Dudley Greer , are currently on display in the Slocumb Galleries at ETSU. The show will run through February 8, 2013 and is open daily.  Greer will be giving a lecture, followed by an opening reception, this Thursday, January 24 at 5pm. For those unable to attend the show, you can view a video of the installation here .

ETSU Alum Ashley Nease (BFA 2012) will be included in Parallax, a national exhibition of Women's Photography to be held at Notre Dame of Maryland University from February 4 to March 15, 2013. The photographs were juried by Martha Madigan, professor of photography in the Tyler School of Art at Temple University and will be seen in the school's Gormley Gallery.   To see a selection of accepted images and learn more about the exhibition, check out the gallery's page here .

ETSU Alum Kevin Thrasher (BFA 2007) will have this beautiful layout featured in the February 2013 issue of Real Simple Magazine. Thrasher made his idyllic photograph of a makeshift hockey pond in Hull, Massachusetts in 2010 while earning his MFA from Massachusetts College of Art.  Check out this and more pictures from his series Common Ground here .

© Mark Steinmetz Entries are now being accepted for ONWARD  Compé '13 to be juried by renowned Southern photographer and former ETSU faculty member, Mark Steinmetz . ONWARD  Compé  is an international photography competition for emerging photographers that culminates in the ONWARD  Summit , an annual photography festival held in Philadelphia.  The competition seeks to increase the exposure of talented image-makers, create outlets for artists’ work, and present compelling photographs in a cohesive and well-curated exhibition. Submissions are due by February 11th. To learn more about the contest or enter your work, click   here .

Riphsin Mountain, Carter County, TN, 2011   © John Lusk Hathaway ETSU Alum John Lusk Hathaway (MFA 2012) has some new, wonderfully timed, photographs on NPR's The Picture Show blog. The pictures come from his project, Reason for the Season , which examines the culture and aesthetics of Christmas tree farms in the rural Southeastern United States. Check out the feature here .