Alyson Aliano

Alyson attended Boston University and The School of Visual Arts, earning a BFA in photography.
Photographic genres include portraiture, reportage, and lifestyle.
Her earliest assignments include portraits of 911 survivors at ground zero for The New York Times Magazine and The Los Angeles Times.
Alyson’s clients include The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, Newsweek, Time, The Washington Post, Linked In, Cosmo, Wired, People, The San Francisco Chronicle, NBC, Amazon, among others.
She has taught photography at NYU Sternhardt School, Columbia University, The School of Visual Arts, UCLA Extension, The Lucie Foundation, and the New York Film Academy. She has taught for various non-profits and co-founded a photography camp that gives scholarships to children in Los Angeles.
She is a contributing artist with Redux Pictures, Women Photograph, and The Luupe.
Her intention is to tell peoples’ stories respectfully and authentically.

The School of Visual Arts
Boston University

2023: Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture Illuminate LA: Collective Memory Installation
2023: HUQ: I Seek No Favor, Artists Respond to Abortion Ban, Curated by Ashima Yadava
2022: Charcoal Book Club Finalist for book series, Stripper Strike NoHo
2021: AI-AP 38 : Latinas in Trucking, NBC
2021: Jamii, Photo Exhibit in the Esplande, Toronto Canada, “We Are Nothing Without Each Other.”
2021: The Luupe: 100 Visions of Motherhood
2021: Waterloo Photography Invitational, Photocentric, Cleveland, OH
2020: Hong Kong Press Award, Group Show, Series AMPM
2018: The Future of LA, Grand Park, Curated by Maren Levinson
2015: Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Portraiture
2013: Mirror, Mirror, collaboration photo series with homeless youth curated by Rachel Buljalski
2011 Prix De Paris, Award for Book Series, “Real Mother.”
2011: AI-AP 27, Award, “Real Mother.”
2011: Santa Fe Workshops: Publication, “Summer.”
2010: Clark-Oshin Gallery, Los Angeles, Solo Show, “Real Mother.:
2010: Santa Fe Workshops: Publication, “Family.”
2009: Momenta Gallery, Brooklyn, The Mood back home, Feminist Art Project. Group Show, “Real Mother.”
2004: New York 24/7, Extraordinary Images of One Week in New York.