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Here are a few things to consider when trying to express and/or enhance a dark mood in images: Read more at https://alinaoswald.com/2024/01/16/dark-mood-in-photography/

Have you ever wondered how an image comes to be? Listen to award-winning, legally blind photographer, Kurt Weston, talk about the making of some of his most iconic images in Inner Vision, a Lenscratch interview.

Listen and read more here: http://lenscratch.com/2023/12/inner-vision-photography-by-blind-artists-kurt-weston/

It’s a new year, and here, in the New York City area, Times Square is considered, by many, “the” place to be and experience the turn of the year.

And so today, I’d like to share with you a Times Square composite created over the years, from images captured at the NYC Pride March, fireworks celebrations, and, of course, Times Square, itself.

The image has been featured in several photography shows in the area, including the (then) annual Fresh Fruit art festivals at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.

Read more here: https://alinaoswald.com/2024/01/02/a-times-square-composite/

Mood, images and the holiday season. https://alinaoswald.com/2023/12/12/the-meaning-of-the-holiday-season-in-images/

A few of the most popular blog posts of this year. Take a look: https://alinaoswald.com/2023/12/19/my-2023-in-review/

Thanksgiving is just around the corner here, and for some reason the thought of it, of the holiday season in general, made me think of sepia photography. Maybe that’s because of the mood I often associate with sepia tones–dark, but not too dark, with traces of doomsday and disarray–the holiday mood.

So, as a nod to the upcoming holiday season, here are a few images in sepia tones:

[read more at https://alinaoswald.com/2023/11/14/seeing-in-sepia/]

Remembering award-winning, renowned photographer Marvin E. Newman (December 5, 1927 - September 13, 2023)

https://alinaoswald.com/2023/09/19/remembering-photographer-marvin-e-newman/

Notes on a #tbt cover-story interview with celebrity photographer Greg Gorman.

I know, I know, it’s “champions,” not “warriors.” And, indeed, I’m humming along, with Freddie Mercury’s voice in mind, as I’m typing this.

The truth is that sometimes, creatives feel compelled to put on their metaphorical warrior capes and make activist art, thus, in turn, becoming real-life warriors. Other creatives get to come close to real-life warriors, photograph and write about them and their work.

Many years ago, I had the chance to photograph a few real-life warriors for an HIV prevention project. Inspired by the PrEP Heroes campaign photographed (on the West Coast) by celebrity photographer Mike Ruiz, someone from an NYC HIV and AIDS nonprofit contacted me with their own idea of an HIV prevention campaign: the HIV Warriors prevention campaign.

The warriors were young and passionate individuals working in HIV prevention and education, themselves. As part of the project, they were to pick a color of the rainbow flag–we ended up with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple/indigo–and share their thoughts about what that color would mean to each one of them. The symbolism of that color would then define their particular superpower. And together, the HIV warriors were to use their superpowers to spread the word about HIV prevention.

The budget was pretty small, but I had a blast photographing, and getting to know my passionate subjects who were working in HIV education and prevention, and real-life warriors, themselves.

Read more here: https://alinaoswald.com/2023/05/16/the-warriors-of-the-world/

Now that the coronavirus pandemic is officially declared over, here’s a look at the images it continues to inspire. I call these COVID-inspired images “Discarded but Not Forgotten.”

Read more here: https://alinaoswald.com/2023/05/09/covid-19-a-brief-visual-requiem/

Also, check out some of my COVID-inspired photography posted on Fine Art America: https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/alinaoswald/collections/covid+related+photography

Thank you for stopping by!
Alina Oswald