Aline Smithson is the founder of Lenscratch, a daily journal on photography. In 2016, the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum commissioned Smithson to create work for the Faces of Our Planet Exhibition. In 2018 and 2019, her work was exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery in London as part of the Taylor Wessing Prize. The Magenta Foundation published her retrospective monograph, “Self & Others: Portrait as Autobiography.” Kris Graves Projects published her book, “LOST II: Los Angeles.” Peanut Press released her monograph, “Fugue State,” in Fall of 2021. Her books are in the collections of the Getty Museum; the National Portrait Gallery, London; the Metropolitan Museum; the Guggenheim; and the Museum of Modern Art, among others. In 2022, she was named a Hasselblad Heroine.
