We are thrilled to offer Aline Smithson’s “Desert Suitcase” as the 2015 PhotoNOLA Collectors Club Print. Smithson is an award-winning California-based photographer whose work, noted for its humor and compassion, is published and exhibited internationally.
The edition is an archival pigment print, featuring an 8×8” image size on 12×10” cotton rag paper. Proceeds from the limited edition print support programming initiatives of PhotoNOLA, New Orleans’ annual photography festival.
Prints are available now through photonola.org, for $100 plus shipping.
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PhotoNOLA established the Collectors Club series in 2013 as a fundraising initiative with a mission to encourage collecting. This program offers the public an opportunity to collect original works by contemporary photographers at an accessible price point. Each year we partner with a photographer to create a limited edition print, produced exclusively for PhotoNOLA. Previous editions were created by David Halliday and Josephine Sacabo.
About the Artist
After a career as a New York Fashion Editor, 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.
Aline 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. In addition, her photographs have been featured in publications including PDN, Communication Arts Photo Annual, Eyemazing, Visura, Fraction, Lenswork Extended, Shots, Square and Silvershotz magazines.
Aline founded and writes the influential blogzine, Lenscratch. She has been Gallery Editor for Light Leaks Magazine, and writes for Diffusion, Don’t Take Pictures, and F Stop Magazines. Aline has curated exhibitions for numerous organizations, and is a reviewer at photo festivals across the United States.
Aline’s honors include the Rising Star Award through the Griffin Museum of Photography (2012) and the 2014 Excellence in Teaching Award from CENTER. The Magenta Foundation has just published Smithson’s retrospective monograph, Self & Others: Portraits as Autobiography (Fall 2015). She lives in Los Angeles and is currently teaching and curating for the Los Angeles Center of Photography.
