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Aline Smithson

Teaches at Los Angeles Center of Photography

After a career as a New York Fashion Editor and working along side the greats of fashion photography, Aline Smithson discovered the family Rolleiflex. Now represented by galleries in the U.S. and Europe and published throughout the world, Aline continues to create her award-winning photography with humor, compassion, and a 50-year-old camera. She has exhibited widely including solo shows at the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Lishui Festival in China, the Tagomago Gallery in Barcelona and Pairs, and the Wallspace Gallery in Seattle and Santa Barbara. Her work has been featured in numerous publications including PDN (cover), the PDN Photo Annual, Communication Arts Photo Annual, Eyemazing, Soura, Visura, Fraction, Artworks, Lenswork, Shots, Pozytyw, and Silvershotz magazines.

In 2012, she received the Rising Star Award from the Griffin Museum for her writing and teaching. She also received Honorable Mention in Center’s 2012 Excellence in Teaching Award. Aline founded and writes the blogzine, Lenscratch, has been the Gallery Editor for Light Leaks Magazine, was a contributing writer for Diffusion, Too Much Chocolate, Lucida, and F Stop magazines, has written book reviews for photoeye, and has been curating and juroring exhibitions for a number of galleries and on-line magazines. She has been a juror for Critical Mass from 2009 - --2012, a 2012 juror for Review Santa Fe, a 2013 Juror for Flash Forward and is a reviewer at photo festivals across the country. Though she was nominated for The Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and received honorable mention in 2012 and nominated for CENTER’s The Santa Fe Prize in Photography in 2009, she considers her children her greatest achievement.

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  • Shooting with Intention

    Reviewed by Alon G. on 3/6/2019

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