La Loba Festival is doing an open call for volunteers
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Launching September 19th, 2022, La Loba Festival will be an annual week-long event held in Charlottesville, Virginia, with satellite events planned to take place across the country. Our mission is to provide an interdisciplinary space to ignite engaging dialogue around the power of the photograph and the importance of storytelling. Through artist conversations, panel discussions, exhibitions, and workshops, the festival explores the underlying elements of our human nature; unpacking why we tell stories and the impact of the visual narrative.
Our workshops will be directed toward local students to inspire the next generation of storytellers. Our photography exhibitions will be dynamic spaces that spark questions and conversation while raising funds to commission future artists. Finally, we plan to partner with universities and offer internships and scholarships to students representing underserved communities.
We are currently operating on our own time and dime and we’re looking for volunteers to help organize those efforts. Student volunteers could primarily participate in the curation and editing of The LLF Journal, our digital publication. They also could be participating in fundraising efforts, social media or marketing campaigns.
If any of your students are interested, please fill out this form
https://airtable.com/shrZGY52jxiIhfcfs
Direct questions to:
Kaya Lee Berne is a photo editor at National Geographic magazine where she specializes in natural history and wildlife photography. Prior to this role she was a visual researcher and data reporter for the maps and graphics department at National Geographic where she collaborated with data providers, expert story sources, and the creative team to produce engaging cartographic and graphic content for the print magazine and digital platform. Her work has received both a gold Malofiej award and a silver SND award.
Kaya spent four years working with Magnum photographer David Alan Harvey, managing production of books, exhibits, presentations and international workshops. This led her to freelance as a photo editor for both Burn Magazine and the New York Times magazine. In 2016, she became a leading producer for the final year of LOOK3, Festival of the Photograph.
Kaya earned a degree in Neuroscience from the University of Virginia and currently resides on Cape Cod with her whippets, Mintaka & Greta.
