portraits : vignette, profile, figure, depiction, silhouette, image, portrayal, representation, likeness …

JUROR | Aline Smithson will be the juror for “portraits”. She is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, editor, and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California. She is best known for her conceptual portraiture and a practice that uses humor and pathos to explore the performative potential of photography. She has exhibited widely including over 50 solo shows at a variety of international institutions and her work has been featured in publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, and PDN. Smithson is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Lenscratch, a daily journal on photography. She received the Rising Star Award through the Griffin Museum of Photography for her contributions to the photographic community and she also received the prestigious Excellence in Teaching Award from CENTER. In 2014 and 2019, Smithson’s work was selected for the Critical Mass Top 50. In 2022, Smithson was recognized as a Hasselblad Heroine. Apart from her iPhone, she only shoots film