The Awards Collective was created to feature the works of artist who have received either a Juror’s Award or Director’s Award in ASG’s Online exhibitions.  Ali Hasbach’s image Cat’s Chateau received the Directors’ Award in the expressionism exhibition juried by Doug Chinnery.  Ali’s exhibition Weaving Expressionism is discussed in this GalleryTalk.

Artist Statement

I am a St Pete-based photographer, visual artist, and traveler inspired by textiles, music, portraiture, and urban landscapes. These inspirations often intersect and manifest themselves in my photography in abstract ways. This woven imagery gives me the greatest freedom and improvisational expression.

Leveraging my camera’s multiple exposure functionality and playing with rhythmic movement while shooting gives me the tools to weave the images and layers like the fabric of new and unexpected destinations.

This collection of images was shot primarily in the Loire Valley of France, as well as in Istanbul and Rajasthan, and reflects the bursts of color, local textiles, and architecture and how they intersect in amazing ways, all the while hearing a lyrical soundtrack as I meandered the streets.

Ali Hasbach
April, 2025

Bio

Alison Hasbach is a St Pete-based photographer and visual artist who graduated with a dual master’s degree in late 18th-century and early 19th-century poetry and the study of portraiture in England. She translated her passion for all things ‘faces’ into a dedicated portrait studio, photographing musicians and, in particular, guitar players. As a founder of the largest library of guitar lessons on the planet, this has given her work a channel for finding and celebrating the unique transaction between a sitter and a portraitist. When not shooting people, she loves to travel, using her camera to weave new images of distant shores, creating her own photographic textiles. In many ways, she has come full circle and stepped back into the world she once studied, but doing so in a modern way with a fresh interpretation. You can find her work online, in galleries, and on myriad album covers around the globe.

website: alihasbach.photography.com
instagram:  @ali.hasbach.art

link to online exhibition