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Allison Smith Interview Liz Kuball just posted a nice, little interview with one of my favorite photographers Allison V. Smith. I remember the first time I saw one of her photos -- it was a woman flying off of a mechanical bull, and all you see are her legs, the bull and the sky... with her body already out of the frame, and the colors so vibrant, the composition so unlike anything i was taught in j-school -- and how much it encouraged me to keep seeing things differently.
Allison's blog Superficial Snapshots has been a huge source of inspiration, and motivation to think outside of the box that most newspaper photographers put themselves in (myself include, from time-to-time). Her style is loose, colorful, quiet and composed. In her very first blog post, Allison shares how the name of her blog came about: When I was 19, I had the guts to show my portrait portfolio to the great Arnold Newman. He flashed the page of slides up to the light and muttered "superficial snapshots." So thus the name. I intend to post outtakes, images with no home and new and improved images on this blog. How can you not love that attitude, and the motivation it gave her to keep shooting for herself. 
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