Found Photographs Archives

The 2021 Vernacular Photography Exhibition by Aline SmithsonJune 12th, 2021

FIRST PLACE WINNER ©Annette LeMay Burke, My Playhouse, San Mateo, CA, IG @atelierlemay

A huge thank you to our juror, Greg Sand, and to all who have shared your work with us.

Focus on Vernacular: The Anonymous Project by Aline SmithsonJune 10th, 2021

©Courtesy of the Anonymous Project

We recently talked with Lee Shulman, Film director, Founder and Curator of The Anonymous Project.

Focus on Vernacular: Maggie Callahan: Unknowingly and Everywhere by Aline SmithsonJune 9th, 2021

©Maggie Callahan, Untitled#12

Some months ago, Lenscratch had a call for physically altered photographs which resulted in a wonderful exhibition, The Artist Intervenes, jurored by Adriene

Focus on Vernacular: Greg Sand: Chronicle by Aline SmithsonJune 7th, 2021

©Greg Sand, Gestures, from Chronicle

To begin this week of celebrating artists using vernacular or found photographs, we need to describe this ever expanding genre.

Yael Eban: False Lighthouse by Lisa McCartyDecember 18th, 2020

©Yael Eban, Spread from False Lighthouse

In the final pages of To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf treats readers to one last extended inner monologue from painter Lily Briscoe.

Liz Albert: Family Fictions by Aline SmithsonApril 27th, 2020

©Liz Albert, Breakaway

I first became aware of Liz Albert’s project, Family Fictions, through Float Magazine’s The Road Exhibition.

Barbara Levine: People Kissing: A Century of Photographs by Aline SmithsonFebruary 13th, 2019

Photographer Unknown, Snapshot, ca.

Alejandro Cartagena: Presence by Aline SmithsonFebruary 1st, 2019

©Alejando Cartagena-Presence Discuartizados #6 16 x 20, Courtesy of the Kopeikin Gallery

There has been a buzz in the Los Angeles photography community about the new exhibition at the Kop

Jamie Diamond: 365 days: 1938/2017 by Aline SmithsonJuly 19th, 2018

Photographer Jamie Diamond’s new body of work, 365 days: 1938/2017, is a poignant documentation of life almost 88 years apart, showing us that motherhood is