365 Project 2021 | Selection
365 Project 2021 | Selection
In Place | Portraits of a Pandemic - Selection
In Place | Portraits of a Pandemic - Selection
In Place | Portraits of a Pandemic - Selection
Alon Goldsmith
Artist Statement
These images are iPhone odes to the anarchic beauty, colorful chaos, and iconic craziness that is Los Angeles. I’m interested in the underlying drama and humor that plays out in seemingly simple actions and juxtapositions. Through the marriage of image and caption (or subtext), I set out to propel the viewer at warp speed toward an amused aha moment—a light-induced epiphany that poses the question, “What on earth is happening here?”
Bio
Dubbed “LA’s iPhoneography Wizard” by Forbes magazine, Alon Goldsmith is an award-winning photographer who has been featured extensively across media and exhibited in galleries around the globe. Alon is a member of Street L.A., a photo collective that shoots on the streets of Los Angeles on a weekly basis.
Alon’s achievements include overall winner of the MIRA Mobile Prize in 2022, 3rd place in the Los Angeles Center of Photography’s Street Photography Around the World Competition, and runner up in the journalism category in the prestigious MPAs, as well as numerous honorable mentions across other categories. He has also achieved wins in the Hipstography Awards, and numerous honorable mentions in the iPhone Photography Awards and the MIRA Mobile Prize. Alon was a jury member for the 2018 and 2019 MPAs. His work has also been published in the Los Angeles Times, Reader's Digest, Frames Magazine and the App Whisperer, and has been extensively featured in Snap and Mobiography magazines. Most recently, Alon published a book of portraits entitled IN PLACE | PORTRAITS OF A PANDEMIC.
Alon shares his iPhoneograpy expertise in a series of eight articles written for Imagine More, a digital publication published by Manfrotto, one of the world’s leading photography accessory companies. His images have been featured in solo shows in New York, Brentwood, Topanga Canyon and San Diego, as well as at HaleARTS in Santa Monica and the Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts. Alon’s photography has appeared internationally in galleries in Canada, Italy, Portugal, and Belgium. As one of the pioneers of the mobile art revolution, Alon is one of 234 global artists featured on The Quilt Project, a textile art collaboration commemorating 10 years of the Mobile Arts from 2008 to 2018.