3:30 AM New York City.Īlthough called an innovator of citizen journalism for his groundbreaking but risky historical access street photography technique, Smith has furthermore emerged among contemporary street photographers as the pioneer who advanced street photography to a global range. Īn American Global Street Photographer's Post 9-11 View of the Streets of the Afghanistan/Pakistan Tribal Belt at the Time of Tora Bora. In July 2009 a portfolio of 45 photographs from Holdout Streets of the Montserrat Volcano Disaster was accessioned into the permanent collection of the Montserrat National Trust. In November 2000 Smith was honored for his work in Montserrat as an American Photo magazine champion for the second time, as a winner of the “International Reader’s Competition”.
In February 1999 Smith released his first global street photography book, a journal ( Molten Memoirs: Essays, Rumors Field Notes and Photographs from the Edge of Fury) about his experience. In September 1997 Smith gained access to the 'death zone' of Salem, Montserrat in the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean, becoming one of the 200 famous volcano holdouts there who refused to leave until a near-fatal close call eruption of the Soufriere Hills Volcano on Septemfinally forced the holdouts to flee. His accounting of the Streets of Cold War Hot Spots garnered Smith a William Randolph Hearst Award nomination and in December 1991 American Photo magazine named Smith an American Photo Career Photographer in that publication's first ever honors competition.Įruption of the Sufriere Hills volcano on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. Several expeditions to the Cold War inspired guerrilla wars in El Salvador and Guatemala and Nicaragua - moonlighting as a journalist for the University Daily Kansan newspaper and selling combat photography he made on the side as a freelance photographer to the Associated Press, United Press International and other agencies. Since launching his career in Autumn 1978, Smith has become recognized as a pioneering global street photographer and has distinguished his method by blurring the line between journalism (documentary) and art.
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In 1996 he earned a Master of Arts degree, the product of a full teaching fellowship provided by Purdue University at West Lafayette, Indiana. In 1984 he earned a BS in journalism from the University of Kansas at Lawrence.
In high school he began photographing street life in Washington Square in nearby New York City. 3 A timeline of notable Smith projects and honorsīorn in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Smith took his first photographs growing up on his family farm outside Kutztown.
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