Aline Smithson, Author at LENSCRATCH

Jill Waterman: The New Year’s Eve Project by Aline SmithsonDecember 31st, 2017

©Jill Waterman, New Year’s 1988, San Juan, Puerto Rico Back Bar at the Hertz Counter, El San Juan Casino Resort

Sometimes a photographer begins a body a work without knowing that it

The Lenscratch 2017 Favorite Things by Aline SmithsonDecember 30th, 2017

©Aline Smithson, Saving this for my granddaughter, Los Angeles, CA

2017 started off with the panic of an administration change and the profound experience of attending the Women’s M

Matthew Finely: This Too Shall Pass by Aline SmithsonDecember 28th, 2017

©Matthew Finley, Untitled #4 One Ambrotype, One Tintype

Artist Matthew Finley’s new project, This Too Shall Pass, combines historic processes into exquisite layered diorama-like box

Caleb Stein: Down by the Hudson by Aline SmithsonDecember 27th, 2017

©Caleb Stein, Prom Boy. Raymond Ave.

Nicholas Nixon: Persistence of Vision by Aline SmithsonDecember 26th, 2017

©Nicholas Nixon, The Brown Sisters, New Caanan, CT, 1975

Though I have appreciated Nicholas Nixon’s The Brown Sisters for a long time, it wasn’t until I stood in front of the

Mariana Vieira: The States Project: Colorado by Aline SmithsonDecember 18th, 2017

©Mariana Vieira, From P to R

I got to know Colorado photographer Mariana Vieira during the Center Forward Exhibition and Photo Camp that Hamidah Glasgow and I jurored and taught at the C

Adrain Chesser: I have something to tell you by Aline SmithsonDecember 7th, 2017

©Adrain Chesser, Chi Chi, from I Have Something to Tell You

While these photos are probably the worst pictures ever taken of my friends, they are undoubtedly the most beautiful.

The Richard McCabe Mixtape by Aline SmithsonDecember 5th, 2017

©Sesthasak Boonchai, Richard McCabe holding polaroid land camera in front of Polaroid 20 X 24″ camera, Ogden 2014

As we head into a week that celebrates all things photography in Ne

Cig Harvey: You An Orchestra You A Bomb by Aline SmithsonDecember 4th, 2017

‘Now dissect our bodies, pull out heart, shit, and eyes, and see each one of us is each other, we are orchestras, we are bombs.

Chris Ogden: Stones Echo by Aline SmithsonDecember 1st, 2017

I first came across Chris Ogden‘s stunning capture of stone quarries at Photolucida, and was pleased to have a chance to sit down with Chris at the Click! Ph