Mentions. Interviews. Appearances. Featured Work. Awards.

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 LGBTQ+ Archive

Interviewed about HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 pandemics in photography and writing for the upcoming 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)

Interviewed about photographing the LGBTQ+ community by Jack Atkinson, Publisher and Founder of ARTSnFOOD Magazine for his podcast, ART in My Kitchen (2020)

A frequent guest on NO BOUNDARIES UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL a Manhattan Neighborhood Network award-winning show hosted by actor and celebrity host Ron B

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.

Photographed HIV Warriors prevention campaign for ASC-NY.

Exploration Into Black and White Photography – article and photos published in Precise Moment online magazine

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.
Testing out the art installation before the show at Casa Comombo. Jersey City, October 2014
Snapshot of Of the Mind: Vampires in NY show at Casa Colombo, in Jersey City, October 2014
Images from Of the Mind: Vampires in NY show, at Casa Colombo, Jersey City, October 2014

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

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 art shows (NYC, 2008 – 2013) and at LITM (Jersey City, NJ, 2009 – 2011)

BACKBONE, a solo photography show to honor unsung LGBTQ+ heroes, 32 Jones Gallery, Hudson Pride Connection Center (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)