On assignment: Kenny Chesney

Kenny Chesney concert. Cowboy Stadium Jumbotron. May 2013. ©Ali Aston

Look again. That's me on the Cowboy Stadium Texas sized jumbotron during Kenny Chesney's No Shoe Nation Tour last weekend. I was on assignment for the Wall Street Journal, shooting behind the drummer with No clue about my total jumbotron-bomb . The photos and John Jurgensen's story run in tomorrow's WSJ. Check out the slideshow here. Check out the paper tomorrow.

#insta_lrtx

La Reunion ©Allison V. Smith

La Reunion ©Allison V. Smith

La Reunion ©Allison V. Smith

La Reunion ©Allison V. Smith

La Reunion ©Allison V. Smith

La Reunion ©Allison V. Smith

Last weekend La Reunion TX hosted Mayday: a site and sound exploration, featuring art work by The Color Condition, a drum circle lead by S-Ankh and the Greiner Middle School mariachi band. Above a few of my photos of the artists, musicians and people who participated. Also check out instagram @lrtx #insta_lrtx for photos from the event.

as seen : Ascendant Visualists

©Mindy Byrd


Rarely ever and I mean never do I get to be on the other side of the camera. Then this happened. Check out this month's issue of Paper City story called Ascendant Visualists. Thanks Mindy Byrd for the kick ass collage portrait and as always Al Tidwell for the hairdo. Also thanks Kate and Catherine for adding me to this inspiring mix of Texas artists. And most importantly, boots by LD Tuttle.

Hill Country Hasselblad

Dos. April 2013. Fredericksburg, Texas © Allison V. Smith 

 April 2013. Fredericksburg, Texas © Allison V. Smith 

Daisy. April 2013. Fredericksburg, Texas © Allison V. Smith 

Just picked up some film from the lab from a recent road trip to the Hill Country with Dos and Daisy and the Hasselblad. Check out my archive for more photos

#thegreatcreate

The Great Create. April 2013. Dallas, Texas © Steve Wrubel


Fellow photographer and deep fried friend, Steve Wrubel, shared this shot of me at the Nasher Sculpture Center's  The Great Create. I taught a hipstamatic workshop to the kids attending the Sunday event. It was a hit. We loaded some of their cool shots on instagram @nashersculpturecenter

In Print: Eye on Texas

(top to bottom) Windhorst, Abilene, Dallas, Dallas, Dallas, Dallas, Tx
photographs by © Allison V. Smith


Check out the last page of the current issue of The Texas Observer.
They published some photographs from my ongoing series of Texas schools. See more here.

Assignment Work: Sookie!

Charlaine Harris. Fort Worth, Texas. 2013. © Allison V. Smith


Last week I had the pleasure of photographing Charlaine Harris, the author of Sookie's Stackhouse  series for the Wall Street Journal. 
Read How To Kill a Vampire (series) here.
#trueblood