Aline Smithson

After a career as a New York Fashion Editor and  working alongside the greats of fashion photography,  Aline Smithson discovered the family Rolleiflex and never  looked back. 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 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 PDN (cover), the PDN Photo Annual, Communication Arts Photo Annual, Eyemazing, Soura, Visura, Fraction, Artworks, Lenswork Extended, Shots, Pozytyw, and Silvershotz magazines.

In 2012, Aline received the Rising Star Award through the Griffin Museum of Photography for her contributions to the photographic community. Aline founded and writes the blogzine, Lenscratch, that celebrates a different contemporary photographer each day and offers opportunity for exhibition. She has been the Gallery Editor for Light Leaks Magazine, is a contributing writer for Diffusion, Too Much Chocolate, Lucida, and F Stop Magazines, has written book reviews for photoeye, and has provided the forwards for artist’s books by Tom Chambers, Flash Forward 12, Robert Rutoed, amongst others. Aline has curated and juried exhibitions for a number of galleries, organizations, and online magazines. She was an overall juror in 2012 for Review Santa Fe, a juror for Critical Mass from 2009-2013, and is a reviewer at many photo festivals across the United States. Though she was nominated for The Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award from 2008-2012 and for The Santa Fe Prize in Photography in 2009 by Center, she considers her children her greatest achievement.