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Aline Smithson
After a career as a New York Fashion Editor and working along side the greats of fashion photography, Aline Smithson discovered the family Rolleiflex and never looked back. An artist 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 Center of Fine Art Photography, the Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, the Lishui Festival in China, the Tagomago Gallery in Barcelona and Paris, and the Wallspace Gallery in Seattle and Santa Barbara. In addition, her work is held in a number of museum collections. Her photographs have been featured in publications including The New Yorker, PDN (cover), the PDN Photo Annual, Communication Arts Photo Annual, Eyemazing, Soura, Visura, Fraction, Artworks, Lenswork Extended, Shots, Pozytyw, Incandescant, Square and Silvershotz magazines. amongst others.
In 2012, Aline received the Rising Star Award through the Griffin Museum of Photography for her contributions to the photographic community. She also was presented with the 2014 Excellence in Teaching Award from CENTER. In 2014, Aline's photographs
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The journey of becoming a fine art photographer
Becoming a fine art photographer is not the easiest of roads, Aline admitted, and she sighted learning the ropes as one of the biggest challenges. “It’s not just about making stellar prints, it is everything that surrounds the work,” she said. “The deep thinking that is part of the articulation, figuring out how the fine art photography world works, understanding how people can help you, and so on.”
But the decision to be a professional photographer was simpler. “It was an organic evolution. I was the family documentarian, then it dawned on me that I could use the camera to make art. And like most photographers, I was hooked.”
Fine art photography can mean many different things to different photographers. And it took Aline a long time to define it for herself. “I came to the conclusion that it is where the photographer has transformed the subject in some way, as an artist. Transformation can be in the articulation of the work, in the process used to create it or unique way of presenting it. The work has to be created with intention and speak both to the personal and the universal. It has to hold a bit of magic.”
Inspiration finds Aline in every corner of her life and she is influenced from a range of thing