Welcome to my website! I am a writer and award-winning photographer published nationally and internationally, covering HIV and AIDS, and LGBTQ+ related stories, in particular as Arts Editor of A&U Magazine–America’s AIDS Magazine and contributor to Out IN Jersey Magazine. A few examples:
Writer. Photographer. Educator.
author of Journeys Through Darkness: A Biography of AIDS telling the story of award-winning, legally blind photographer Kurt Weston
featured in Visual AIDS, La Vie Galerie, Leslie-Lohman Museum, SoHo Photo Gallery shows
frequent guest on celebrity host, Ron B, show, No Boundaries Up Close and Personal, and other panels to talk about HIV and AIDS, photography, art and artists, activism, authors and books, women empowerment and equal rights
former board member, Professional Women Photographers (PWP)
Actor and advocate William Harrell photographed by Alina Oswald for A&U Magazine
LGBTQ/HIV advocate, Athelete Ally & Vietnam Relief Ambassador Amazin LeThi photographed by Alina Oswald for A&U Magazine.
Nancy Duncan, longtime HIV survivor and advocate, photographed exclusively for A&U Magazine.
Author Hans M. Hirschi photographed by Alina Oswald.
Actor and advocate David Mixner photographed exclusively for A&U Magazine–America’s AIDS Magazine.
AU’s Lester Strong at Leslie-Lohman summer benefit honoring Silence = Death Collective.
Author, artist, activist, co-founder of Silence = Death, Avram Finkelstein photographed for A&U Magazine. Photo by Alina Oswald.
Highlights:
Interviewed about HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 pandemics in photography and writing for the Making Meaning in a Pandemic course offered by Canisius College of Arts & Science.
Interviewed about photographing and also writing about the LGBTQ+ community by Jack Atkinson, Publisher and Founder of ARTSnFOOD Magazine. Check it out on his podcast, ART in the Kitchen.
Stunning B & W photography.
(I saw your comment on Don Urban’s site).
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Thank you! I love b&w :-). Appreciate your note.
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