Aline Smithson, Author at LENSCRATCH

Rachel Jump: Origins by Aline SmithsonNovember 14th, 2015

©Rachel Jump

I first met Rachel Jump when we shared a week at the Maine Media Workshops this summer.

Willie Anne Wright: Direct Positive by Aline SmithsonNovember 13th, 2015

©Willie Anne Wright, Richmond, Virginia Joan by Her Pool, 1986

Candela Books has just released their sixth publication, Direct Positive: Willie Anne Wright, accompanied by an exhibition a

DM Witman: MELT by Aline SmithsonNovember 12th, 2015

©DM Witman, from MELT

I have always enjoyed DM Witman’s approach to photography that beautifully connects subject matter to process.

Nanette Freeman: Diversion by Aline SmithsonNovember 11th, 2015

©Nanette Freeman

The arts are as much about creative expression as they are about creating a second language for us to use to express pain, loss, trauma, and even joy.

Bruce Hall: Immersed: Our Experience with Autism by Aline SmithsonNovember 10th, 2015

©Bruce Hall

Autism is not subtle. It is not vague. It pervades everything, surfaces everywhere.

Kurt Simonson: Northwoods Journals by Aline SmithsonNovember 9th, 2015

Cover of Northwoods Journals (offset printing on cloth, 7.75 x 9.

Liese Ricketts: Suburban Carnage by Aline SmithsonOctober 31st, 2015

©Liese Ricketts, Bad Clown

Liese Ricketts is not afraid of the dark, especially on Halloween. What she is more fearful of is what fear does to our sense of freedom.

Jesse Burke: Wild & Precious by Aline SmithsonOctober 29th, 2015

Wild & Precious Front Cover ©Jesse Burke

Wild & Precious Back Cover ©Jesse Burke

There are so many things I want to teach you.

Gina Cholick: Inquietude by Aline SmithsonOctober 28th, 2015

©Gina Cholick

Life is complex and navigating the future in the midst of that complexity leads to sense of weightiness–the weight of expectation, the weight of not knowing what comes