Alina Oswald

Interviews. Appearances. Featured Work. Awards.

Photographing Winter. An article published in the DPA (Digital Photo Academy) Newslstter.

A few images from photographing the rainbow painting event in front of JCMC during the 2024 LGBTQIA History Month were included in a JCMC Pride YouTube video. Check them out here.

Artwork featured on March 25, 2022, at the Berlin Modular Society #10 special show with all proceeds going to organizations standing with Ukrainian support of Ukraine. #StandWithUkraine

NYC skyline at night, illuminated in blue and yellow lights, in solidarity with Ukraine. ©Alina Oswald.
NYC skyline at night, illuminated in blue and yellow lights, in solidarity with Ukraine. ©Alina Oswald.
NYC skyline at night, illuminated in blue and yellow lights, in solidarity with Ukraine. ©Alina Oswald.
NYC skyline at night, illuminated in blue and yellow lights, in solidarity with Ukraine. ©Alina Oswald.

Artwork featured in the Marking Lives COVID-19 art show. Check out Elizabeth Awalt website for more details.

Interviewed by anthropologist and author Veronica Kirin for her Stories of COVID-19 project. Please listen to The Heart of Comfort podcast episode. Images of the USS Comfort reaching NYC will be included in Kirin’s upcoming book.

Interviewed for I’m from Driftwood podcast

Guest presenter as part of the Making Meaning in a Pandemic course offered by Canisius College of Arts & Science (2020)

COVID-19-inspired artwork included in the Pandemic Archive Project (2020)

Under the Covid-19 Dome. Black-and-white photography by Alina Oswald.
Under the Covid-19 Dome. Black-and-white photography by Alina Oswald.

Interviewed by Jack Atkinson, Publisher and Founder of ARTSnFOOD Magazine, for his podcast, ART in My Kitchen (2020).

Nature-and-the-environment photography work was featured in the first 2019 issue of ARTS & FOOD Magazine (2019)

Panel guest speaker, talking about HIV and AIDS in literature and art, at OCCCA’s World AIDS Day 2018 opening of Kurt Weston‘s photography show, REMEMBER: An AIDS Retrospective (2018)

With Terry Roberts and award-winning photographer Kurt Weston attending the opening night of Weston's show, Remember: An AIDS Retrospective, at OCCCA.
With Terry Roberts and award-winning photographer Kurt Weston attending the opening night of Weston’s show, Remember: An AIDS Retrospective, at OCCCA.

Photography work featured in the opening show of La Vie Galerie, in Livingston, NJ

My nature photography at La Vie Galerie show.
La Vie Galerie LLC – opening night.

Shadows, Highlights, and Shades of Gray: An Exploration into Black-and-White Photography an article about black-and-white photography published in Precise Moment Magazine

Photographed HIV Warriors prevention campaign for ASC-NY.

Award-winning photography, juried photo competition (SoHo Photo Gallery, NYC, 2014)

Award-winning photography, Main Prize: Cell Yourself, PDN/Photo Plus Expo (NYC, 2014)

Board Member, Professional Women Photographers (NYC, 2014 – 2015)

Member of the UNDETECTABLE Flash Collective (NYC, 2014)

VAMPIRES IN NEW YORK photography show, as part of OF THE MIND ART SHOW at Casa Colombo (Jersey City, NJ; October 2014) Read about it in the November 2014 issue of River View Observer

Testing. Testing. Preparing for VAMPIRES IN NYC images as part of OF THE MIND SHOW at Casa Colombo. October 2014. bts.

Journeys Through Darkness: A Biography, by Alina Oswald with Photography by Kurt Weston. Sharpened Pen Publishing [2012]

Journeys Through Darkness: A Biography
Journeys Through Darkness: A Biography of AIDS. Photography by Kurt Weston.

INFINITE LIGHTS, my book on photographing the 9/11 Tribute Lights, was part of the fourth annual book fair hosted by Jersey City’s Free Public Library. Read about it in the September 2011 issue of River View Observer

AMBASSADOR OF HOPE – Dab the AIDS Bear Project (February 2010)

Photography art featured in Visual AIDS and Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art shows (NYC, 2008 – 2013) and at LITM (Love Is The Message – Jersey City, NJ, 2009 – 2011)

BACKBONE, a solo photography show to honor unsung LGBTQ+ heroes, 32 Jones Gallery, Hudson Pride Connection Center (now HPC, Jersey City, NJ, 2008)

CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENCE IN ACHIEVEMENT to help support and empower LGBTQ+ communities and people living with HIV – Hudson Pride Connections (Jersey City, NJ, 2007)