Hot Shots : Alison Grippo
Artist Statement
I took my first photograph with a pinhole camera and never looked back. I shoot people, people in their moments, finding their space inside of crowds and cities and thick urban landscapes. I shoot their single moment when they are entirely who they are and may not even know it. I shoot them anywhere they shine. The submissions are two from the Chinese firework festival in New York, and then one special one of a woman in a small coffee shop having just left a hospital to get a cup of coffee. She was clearly mentally unstable and arguing with her self in the corner of the shop with a bandage still on her hand from where the IV once was.
Biography
Alison Grippo launched her photography career as a Spring 2006 Hot Shot. She was named a Ne Plus Ultra and is represented by Jen Bekman Gallery. She spends most of her time working on a documentary photography book that covers amateur and entry level professional boxing in New York. She has a strong addiction to cheese and generally posts her work on her website and blog.
Alison has also won PDN and Olympus' Visionage competition, has been an honorable mention multiple times in the LUCIE International Photographer of the Year Awards, and was "Chosen" by the American Photography 2007 Annual. She was a finalist for Critical Mass, sponsored by Photolucida.org and The Center Of Fine Art Photography, for her Friday Night Fights series. Work from this series has also been published in Cool'eh, File, Flak Photo, and Story. Her other work has been featured in JPG, Digital Photographer, Surface, Readymade, and various additional publications.