Alina Oswald

Welcome to my website! I am a writer and award-winning photographer published nationally and internationally, with twenty years of publishing industry experience and ten years of teaching experience. I offer photography and photo editing services to small businesses and business professionals, to artists, authors and other fellow creatives.

Arts Editor of A&U Magazine–America’s AIDS Magazine
Columnist at Out IN Jersey Magazine
author of Journeys Through Darkness: A Biography of award-winning, legally blind photographer Kurt Weston
member of the Undetectable Flash Collective
a frequent guest on celebrity host, Ron B, show, No Boundaries Up Close and Personal
former board member, Professional Women Photographers (PWP)
member of NYC’s Infinity Photographic Society
photography instructor

I photograph portraits, editorials, events, including weddings and engagements, ad campaigns, product and promotional photography.

Actor Steve Hayes photographed and interviewed for A&U Magazine. ©Alina Oswald.
Stacey Latimer, photographer exclusively for A&U Magazine
Award-winning performing artist and HIV/AIDS advocate, Rev. Yolanda, photographed and interviewed in NYC’s Washington Square Park, for A&U Magazine—America’s AIDS Magazine. ©Alina Oswald. All Rights Reserved.
Prep Pioneer Damon L. Jacobs photographed for A&U Magazine–America’s AIDS Magazine. ©Alina Oswald. All Rights Reserved. “Damon in action” During his speeches, he shows his Truvada to the audience and sometimes even takes his Truvada as PrEP.
Antoine B. Craigwell, Founder, CEO, Executive Producer. Depressed Black Gay Men (DBGM). http://www.dbgm.org, http://www.yana-thefilm.com, photographed exclusively for A&U Magazine.
AIDS activist Ken Pinkela photographed for A&U Magazine–America’s AIDS Magazine. ©Alina Oswald. All Rights Reserved.
Maria Davis photographed in studio exclusively for A&U Magazine. Maria Davis offering HIV prevention (a handfull of condoms).
Actor Adam B. Shapiro photographed and interviewed for A&U Magazine—America’s AIDS Magazine. ©Alina Oswald.
Summer Benefit Honoring the 30th anniversary of Silence = Death poster. Photographed for an A&U Magazine article. ©Alina Oswald. Covering Live Loud Now, the summer benefit for the thirty year anniversary of Silence = Death poster, at Leslie-Lohman Museum in SoHo, NYC. Silence = Death collective, founded in 1986, includes Avram Finkelstein, Brian Howard, Charles Kreloff, Christopher Lione, Jorge Socarras, Oliver Johnson.
Carmen Rusu, Manager at Symposia Bookstore, Hoboken, NJ. ©Alina Oswald. All Rights Reserved.
Daniel Bauer. Escape Artist, motivational speaker, HIV activist. ©Alina Oswald for A&U Magazine.
Mr. Eagle NYC 2020. Photo ©Alina Oswald. All Rights Reserved.
Avram Finkelstein. Artist, activist, author. ©Alina Oswald for A&U Magazine June 2019 cover story.
Academy award-winner Joel Grey directs the all-star cast American premier of the Yiddish landuage Fiddler on the Roof. Here, Joel Grey talks to the press on June 4, before starting rehearsals, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage.
Actor Steven Skybell (Fiddler on the Roof, Wicked, The Full Monty), who plays Tevye, talks about the revival of Fiddler on the Roof, on the first day of rehearsals, on June 4, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. Photographed for A&U Magazine–America’s AIDS Magazine. ©Alina Oswald. All Rights Reserved,
Author, singer/songwriter and activist Henry Goldring photographed for A&U Magazine by Alina Oswald.
Advocate David Mixner and one of his cats. Photographed by Alina Oswald for A&U Magazine–America’s AIDS Magazine.
Celebrity host, actor and LGBTQ+ advocate Ron B at a 2018 pre-Halloween and bday No Boundaries show, poses with the June print issue of A&U Magazine—America’s Magazine opened to a feature story about the activist and actor. ©Alina Oswald. All Rights Reserved.
Celebrity host, activist and actor Ron B, photographed and interviewed by Alina Oswald for A&U Magazine–America’s AIDS Magazine.
Performing artist Carlos M. Photo ©Alina Oswald. All Rights Reserved.
Men’s fashion. Photography by Alina Oswald. All Rights Reserved.
LGBTQ and HIV activist Carlos Idibouo. © Alina Oswald.
Brandon Lawrence-Martin Lee of The Alliance for Positive Change, photographed and interviewed for A&U Magazine. ©Alina Oswald
Maria Davis photographed in studio exclusively for A&U Magazine.
Actor and advocate William Harrell, photographed by Alina Oswald for A&U Magazine
Performing/recording artist, LGBTQ ally and HIV advocate, Cody Bondra, photographed by Alina Oswald for A&U Magazine–America’s AIDS Magazine.
Author and motivational speaker Marianne Williamson photographed by Alina Oswald for A&U Magazine–America’s AIDS Magazine.
Billie Jean King at NYC Pride March 2018. Photo by Alina Oswald.
Headshot in color. Photo by Alina Oswald.
Nancy Duncan, longtime HIV survivor and advocate, photographed exclusively for A&U Magazine.
Actor Jeffrey Wright introducing Tony Kushner at Worksmen’s Circle awarded ceremony. Tony Kushner received the Workmen’s (now Workers) Circle Activism Award on December 10, 2018, in NYC. Photographed for Out IN Jersey Magazine. ©Alina Oswald. All Rights Reserved.
Award-winning playwright Tony Kushner receives the Activism and Jewish Culture Award on December 10, 2018, in NYC, at the Worker’s Circle winter benefit. ©Alina Oswald for an article published in Out IN Jersey Magazine.
Author Hans M. Hirschi © Alina Oswald.
Daniel Szymczyk, Founder/CEO of The HIV League, photographed exclusively for A&U Magazine–America’s AIDS Magazine.
Wedding reception. Wedding photography by Alina Oswald.
Daniel Szymczyk, Founder/CEO of The HIV League, photographed and interviewed for A&U Magazine–America’s AIDS Magazine. ©Alina Oswald.
Omar Garcia photographed for A&U Magazine–America’s AIDS Magazine. ©Alina Oswald
Jersey City Mayor Fulop speaking at Resilient JC launch event. Photos by Alina Oswald. All Rights Reserved. Logo design by Alina Oswald.
Resitient JC President, Simon Pereira Shorey speaking at Resilient JC launch event. Photo by Alina Oswald. All Rights Reserved.
Carlos Idibouo for A&U Magazine. Photo by Alina Oswald.
Fitness portraits and editorials by Alina Oswald.
Photographing Men. © Alina Oswald. All Rights Reserved.