{{short description|American street photographer (born 1956)}} {{About|the street photographer|other people with the same name|Gary Smith (disambiguation){{!}}Gary Smith}} {{Infobox artist |name= Gary Mark Smith |image=Gary Mark Smith Portrait.jpg |birth_date= {{Birth date and age|1956|04|27}} |birth_place= Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S. |field=Street photography |website={{URL|streetphoto.com}} }}
'''Gary Mark Smith''' (born April 27, 1956) is an American street photographer.<ref>CNN 24-hour Cable Television News Channel. Jeff Flock/ Bernard Shaw (1992-04-30 to 05-08)</ref><ref>GUP #25 The Street Photography Issue: Guide to Unique Photography/ Europe-Amsterdam (June–July 2010) gupmagazine.com</ref><ref name="www2.ljworld.com">Near, Mitchell J. (2002-01-03) The MAG: Cover Story – The Art of War, A Lawrence artist captured and was charged and convicted for what he calls “street photography” in world's hot spots. http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2002/jan/03/the_mag_cover/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607223028/http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2002/jan/03/the_mag_cover/ |date=2011-06-07 }}</ref><ref name="ReferenceC">Near, Mitchell J. (2001-08-30) The Art MAG: Feature Story - Into the Eye of the Storm: Photographer Seeks Lethal Situations for the Perfect Shot. http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2001/aug/30/into_the_eye/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607220420/http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2001/aug/30/into_the_eye/ |date=2011-06-07 }} The Art MAG feature story.</ref> His work, a lifetime art project conducted in numerous countries, focuses on urban environments. His photography has been described as incorporating elements of photojournalism and fine art, often depicting violent circumstances and locations affected by social and environmentally impactful challenges.<ref>Biles, Jan (1997-03-06) "Photographer Takes Global View With Art." The MAG photography column (Lawrence Journal-World).</ref><ref name=":4">James R. Hugunin (2000–2002) Global Wandering as Method, critical foreword to Gary Mark Smith's second street photography book "Searching for Washington Square: A celebration of Life on the Global Street, vol. 1" (Lawrence, KS: East Village PhotoArts and the Traver Trust, 2000). http://www.uturn.org/Vita/allpub.htm</ref><ref>ArtStew Magazine Interview https://artstewmagazine.blogspot.com/2009/05/gary-mark-smith-artstew-magazine-issue.html</ref><ref>George Eastman House/ Sotheby's 2011 Auction Catalog at the Metropolitan Pavilion. Index of Artists, with Biographical Information George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film 2011 Benefit Auction Catelog/Sotheby's/iGavel/ (October 3, 2011). p.75. http://auction.eastmanhouse.org/2011/catalog.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425221206/http://auction.eastmanhouse.org/2011/catalog.pdf |date=2012-04-25 }}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.okgazette.com/oklahoma/street-life/Content?oid=6352510|title=Oklahoma Gazette. Jeremy Martin. Street Life in urban centers comes into focus in Oklahoma City Museum of Art's Photographing the Street {{!}} July 12, 2019|last=Martin|first=Jeremy|date=2019}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Smith was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on April 27, 1956. His first photographs were taken while growing up on his family farm outside Kutztown, Pennsylvania. In high school, he began photographing street life in Washington Square in nearby New York City.<ref name="autogenerated2000">Lothamer, Jenny (1996-12-02) Photographer to Say Goodbye with Exhibit.</ref>
In 1984, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism from the University of Kansas in Lawrence.<ref>Popper, Joe (1989-05-28) Guerrilla Rock: Or, How a Tiny, 100-Watt KU Radio Station Caused a Million Watts of Grief. An investigative journalism exposé about how Smith and a few thousand of his friends saved a groundbreaking radio station from local and national power freaks intent on spoiling a cultural legacy, KJHK – The Sound Alternative. Kansas City Star Magazine.</ref> In 1996, he earned a Master of Arts degree, the product of a full teaching fellowship provided by Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.<ref>Xavier Jackson. Cracked magazine. ''6 Historical Events That Are Way More Modern Than You Think'' Alfred Eisenstaedt and Gary Mark Smith The End of World War II. http://www.cracked.com/article_19708_6-historical-events-that-are-way-more-modern-than-you-think.html</ref>
==Career== Smith launched his career in Autumn 1978 and made street photography, blurring the line between journalism and fine art.<ref name="autogenerated1992"/><ref>United Press International (1982-06) Network, Freelance Photographers Taken by FML</ref><ref name=":0" /> His projects included:
'''''Cold War''''' thumb|''Waiting for Improvement. 3:30 AM New York City'', 1987 thumb|''Eruption of the Sufriere Hills volcano on the Caribbean island of Montserrat'', 1997 [[File:NEW-Afghanistan Talabin Escape 12-2001.png|thumb|Only known photograph of a Taliban confederate escaping U.S. bombers adjacent to Tora Bora, 2001]] [[File:Katrina Mississippi Ronald McDonaldSurgeScape.png|thumb|Storm surge damage along Interstate 90 on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, September 2005]] thumb|Boulevard Kanyamahanga traffic circle, 2015 From 1982 to 1984, he made several expeditions to Central America, covering the guerilla wars in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua while moonlighting as a journalist for the University Daily Kansan<ref name="Jones, Laurie 1984" /> and selling combat photography as a freelancer to the Associated Press, United Press International and other agencies''.''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Collection: Gary Mark Smith collection {{!}} Kenneth Spencer Research Library Archival Collections |url=https://archives.lib.ku.edu/repositories/3/resources/3615 |access-date=2025-12-23 |website=archives.lib.ku.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Acclaimed street photographer Gary Mark Smith donates collection to KU |url=https://news.ku.edu/news/article/2011/08/23/acclaimed-street-photographer-gary-mark-smith-donates-collection-ku |access-date=2025-12-23 |website=KU News |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=El Salvador, Guatemala, 1982 - 1984 {{!}} Kenneth Spencer Research Library Archival Collections |url=https://archives.lib.ku.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/558530 |access-date=2025-12-23 |website=archives.lib.ku.edu}}</ref><ref name="autogenerated1982" />
In 1990, he photographed the crumbling Iron Curtain including West Germany, East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands leading up to European and German Reunification, including celebrations in Prague, Budapest and on October 3, 1990 in Köln (Cologne), Germany.<ref name="autogenerated2000" /><ref>Thorson, Alice (1992-01-26) KC Star art critic. "Only a Few Works Stand Out From Crowd- Of the works taking inspiration further afield, most captivating is Gary Mark Smith's photograph of a group of Warsaw, Poland citizens, seated side by side on an outdoor bench." The Kansas City Star.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cracked.com/article_19708_6-historical-events-that-are-way-more-modern-than-you-think.html|title=6 Historical Events That Are Way More Modern Than You Think|date=March 12, 2012|website=Cracked}}</ref>
In 1991, he photographed the streets of the collapse of the Soviet Union, as it dissolved.<ref name="autogenerated3"/><ref name="ktwu.washburn.edu">Kansas Public Television/Sunflower Journeys (1992) #513-Cross-Cultural Communication. Kansas City Monarchs: Legendary baseball team in the Negro leagues with Buck O'neil; IN Focus: A photography class for inner city youth in Kansas City with Gary Mark Smith; Indian Art Market: An Annual event at Haskell Indian Nations University. http://ktwu.washburn.edu/journeys/</ref>
Several expeditions to the Cold War inspired guerrilla wars in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua, moonlighting as a journalist for the ''University Daily Kansan'' newspaper<ref name="Jones, Laurie 1984">Jones, Laurie (1984) Jayhawk Journalist Magazine; spring issue. Gary Smith: Senior Turns Combat Photographer in El Salvador.</ref> and selling combat photography he made on the side as a freelance photographer to the Associated Press, United Press International, and other agencies.<ref name="autogenerated1982">Goldberg, Phil (1982-08-14) El Salvador Ambush Hits Home for Local Photographer. Lawrence Journal-World front-page news feature.</ref>
'''''"Molten Memoirs"''''' In September 1997, Smith gained access to the death zone of Salem, Montserrat in the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean,<ref>Associated Press (1999-10-8). Montserrat Volcano article.</ref><ref>Blankenship, Bill (1997-11-02) "Clinging to the Edge of Fury: Artist Returns From the Streets of a Volcanic Disaster." Midway Magazine (Topeka Capitol-Journal).</ref> becoming one of the 200 volcano holdouts there who refused to leave until a near-fatal close call eruption of the Soufriere Hills Volcano on September 22, 1997 finally forced them to flee.<ref name="streetphoto.com">Gordon, Suzanne (1999-Nov. issue) Montserrat Memoirs. Caribbean Travel and Life magazine. {{Vague|date=July 2016}}<!-- What does this reference even mean? --></ref> In February 1999 Smith released his first street photography book, a journal (''Molten Memoirs: Essays, Rumors Field Notes and Photographs from the Edge of Fury'') about his experience.
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.
'''''Tora Bora: An American Global Street Photographer's Post 9-11 View of the Streets of the Afghanistan/Pakistan Tribal Belt at the Time of Tora Bora.''''' Smith's Streets of the ''Post-9/11 World'' project including work from Ground Zero in New York City, the streets under the air war adjacent to the Battle of Tora Bora,<ref name="www2.ljworld.com"/> the streets of the Afghanistan/Pakistan border refugee camps, the streets of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Pakistan at Peshawar beyond the Khyber Pass (Mohmand and Khyber Agencies), and to the everyday post-September 11 attacks terror war streets of Las Vegas, Paris, and Lawrence, Kansas, his hometown and the only city in North America (Bleeding Kansas) established during a terror war (John Brown; William Quantrill), resulted in his third street photography book ''White With Foam: Essays, Rumors, Field Notes and Photographs from the Edge of World War III'', published in 2009.
'''''The Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the Flood of New Orleans''''' On September 1, 2005, Smith was sent by the American Red Cross to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the flood of New Orleans, becoming a member of the Red Cross<ref>Maines, Sophia (2005-10-01) Volunteers Return From Gulf Coast. http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/oct/01/volunteers_return_gulf_coast/ Lawrence Journal-World.</ref> first strike team, helping run undermanned rescue shelters in southern Louisiana on the outskirts of the Flood of New Orleans. During his service he photographed the Flood of New Orleans while on a cat rescue mission afloat down Canal Street and in addition photographed the extreme hurricane surge damage of nearly the entire Mississippi Gulf Coast Highway 90. In 2009, eight of the images were accessed into the permanent art collection at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA).<ref name="ReferenceA">Stewart, Scott (2009-05-25), Pioneering A Global Range in a Traditionally Local Art. ArtStew International Magazine</ref>
'''''Sleeping in the City: Global Street Photography from Inside the Wire.''''' Smith has photographed in more than 100 countries on six continents.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://kansan.com/news/2012/11/14/famed-photographer-gary-mark-smith-to-give-lecture-for-journalism-art-students/ |title=Famed photographer Gary Mark Smith to give lecture for journalism, art students | the University Daily Kansan |access-date=2013-06-25 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130628024434/http://kansan.com/news/2012/11/14/famed-photographer-gary-mark-smith-to-give-lecture-for-journalism-art-students/ |archive-date=2013-06-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref> His photographs (thematic and typically of the fashion, advertising, and particular place-defining urban elements of a location along with passing people) have been accessed into museum collections in North America, South America, and Europe.<ref>Annual Report: Oklahoma City Museum of Art (2008-01-01) Gary Mark Smith Prints Collected by OKCMOA. http://www.okcmoa.com/files/u1/Annual%20Report%202006-07.pdf{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The Oklahoma City Museum of Arts Annual Report 2006–2007.</ref><ref name=":1" />
'''''Rocinha favela, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil''''' thumb|Urban Combat: Heavily armed police sharpshooter hunting armed gangsters inside Rocinha favela, Rio de Janeiro, 2012 Between 2011 and 2014, Smith and partner Sarah Stern photographed the streets of the gang-controlled Favela Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro before the city's pacification of the favela. Smith went on to publish a book about the project called ''Favela da Rocinha, Brazil''. He then continued photographing Rocinha alone as the gangs (post World Cup) retook control of most of the slum.<ref name=":5">Jan Biles. Topeka Capital-Journal (July 3, 2011) Kansans Document Life In Slums of Brazil: Photos capture grit, heart of Rio slum, http://cjonline.com/news/2011-07-02/photos-capture-grit-heart-rio-slum#.Tj708BzK6iF</ref><ref>Chansi Long. Lawrence Journal-World. 1) KU student, local photographer document life in Brazilian slum http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2011/aug/15/ku-student-local-photographer-document-life-brazil/</ref>
'''''Goma, Congo''''' He embedded himself for 17 days inside the United Nations peacekeeping mission in North Kivu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photographed life on the streets of Goma, capital city of the ongoing Congo Wars; also photographing life in the Mugunga refugee camp on the flanks of Mount Nyiragongo volcano.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mcall.com/entertainment/arts/mc-goma-book-gary-smith-bethlehem-20160813-story.html|title=Bethlehem native photographs 'the most miserable place on earth' for latest book|last=Walker|first=Carter|date=July 20, 2018|website=The Morning Call|access-date=July 21, 2018|archive-date=July 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721043925/http://www.mcall.com/entertainment/arts/mc-goma-book-gary-smith-bethlehem-20160813-story.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://jayhawkjournalist.com/gary-smith|title=Nashia Baker. Jayhawk Journalist magazine. June 2017. Photography Pioneer. Street Photographer Gary Mark Smith Travels to Some of the Most Far-Flung Places on the Globe, Discovering Danger with Every Step|last=Baker|first=Nashia|date=June 2017|website=Jayhawk Journalist|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721043902/https://jayhawkjournalist.com/gary-smith|archive-date=July 21, 2018|url-status=}}</ref>
==Personal life== Smith had a difficult upbringing that ended badly, ultimately shaping resilience as a major theme in his artwork. His mother committed suicide, a victim of uncontrollable depression, when he was in the fifth grade, resulting in his development as a self-reliant and independent spirit unencumbered by self-doubt. He was knocked unconscious in secondary lightning strikes twice, once when he was 15 and again at 20, resulting in later incorporation of the fury of nature into his global street photography method.<ref name="ReferenceC"/><ref name="streetphoto.com"/>
In 1976, Smith was abruptly disabled during a knee operation when insufficient room for swelling was left in the cast that was applied and his nerves were crushed from three inches above the knee all the way down through his left foot, a condition known as Acute Compression Syndrome. This rendered him in agonizing pain and existing under the influence of powerful opioid painkillers for the rest of his life, so he began planning to end it in time.<ref>"Molten Memoirs: Essays, Rumors, Field Notes and Photographs From The Edge of Fury" (1999, 2000, 2001, 2009) An Artist's Account of the Volcano Holdouts of Salem, Montserrat.</ref>
However, in 1978, while hitchhiking across the United States only months before his planned suicide, Smith picked up a newspaper one morning at a truck stop outside Scottsbluff, Nebraska and was inspired by an article he read promising cheaper international airfares under the new Airline Deregulation Act. That development, when blended with an inexplicable wanderlust, compelled him to become an experimental fine art global street photographer instead of killing himself or suffering the other less exciting (more painful and less pain distracting) options left available to him.<ref name="ReferenceA"/><ref> ArtStew Magazine (2009-01-20) ArtStew.com (National and International) Artist Spotlight.</ref>
==Publications== ===Publications by Smith=== *Gary Mark Smith. ''Molten Memoirs: Essays, Rumors, Field Notes and Photographs from the Edge of Fury.'' 1999, 2000, 2001, 2009. An Artist's Account of the Volcano Holdouts of Salem, Montserrat. Issued on tape for the sight impaired in 2001 by Audio Reader; 2009 issued as a Kindle Edition. {{OCLC|51717655}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Molten Memoirs: Essays, Rumors, Field Notes, and Photographs from the Edge of Fury by Gary Mark Smith {{!}} Kenneth Spencer Research Library Archival Collections |url=https://archives.lib.ku.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/216078 |access-date=2025-12-23 |website=archives.lib.ku.edu}}</ref> *Gary Mark Smith. ''Searching for Washington Square.'' Vol. 1, ''A celebration of life on the global street.'' Lawrence, KS: East Village PhotoArts, 2001. {{ISBN|9780967276946}}. *Gary Mark Smith. ''White with Foam: Essays, Rumors, Field Notes, and Photographs from the Edge of World War III.'' 2003. 3rd edition. Kindle, 2009. *Gary Mark Smith. ''Goma: The Poetry of Everyday Life on the Streets of the Most Miserable Place on Earth; Inside the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in North Kivu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo.'' 2016. {{ISBN|9780967276984|}}. *Gary Mark Smith. Travelogueing The Dark Side: The ExtremeOphile Field Notes of A One-of-A-Kind Lifetime Art Project documenting and completing Smith’s 40-year-long History in Time – Danger Street project two decades before and two decades after the millennium. East Village PhotoArts; 2018. {{ISBN|9 780967 276991|}}.<ref name=":0" />
===Publications with others=== *Janet M. Cinelli. ''The Road to Hell: How to Make Heaven Out of Third Class Travel.'' Lawrence, KS: East Village TravelArts, 2009. With a foreword and photography by Gary Mark Smith. {{ISBN|9780967276960}} *Sarah Stern and Gary Mark Smith, with Carlos the Filmmaker. ''Favela da Rocinha, Brazil.'' Lawrence, KS: East Village PhotoArts; Collierville, TN. 2012. {{ISBN|9780967276977}}. *Cover Photograph - Arundhati Roy. ''The God of Small Thing''s (Italian Translation). 2003. {{ISBN|88-8246-633-7}}.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The God of Small Things (Italian Translation)|last=Roy|first=Arundhati|publisher=Ugo Guanda Editore S.p.A., Viale Solferino 28, Parma|year=2003|isbn=88-8246-633-7|location=Italy|pages=1}}</ref>
==Exhibitions== *2006: Four of Smith's images (from Greece, Amsterdam, Montserrat and Las Vegas) were selected by photography critic Mason Resnick for inclusion in the four-month international street photography ''Crosswalks Exhibition'' at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art (OKCMOA).<ref name="ReferenceB">(2006-7-01) Exhibit Features Work by Lawrence Photographer. http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/jul/01/exhibit_features_work_lawrence_photographer/ Lawrence Journal-World.</ref> Later, after the exhibition closed, the museum accessioned two of Smith's digital street photographs (from Las Vegas and Amsterdam) into its permanent art collection.<ref name="okcmoa.com">Annual Report: Oklahoma City Museum of Art (2008-01-01) Gary Mark Smith Prints Collected by OKCMOA. http://www.okcmoa.com/files/u1/Annual%20Report%202006-07.pdf{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The Oklahoma City Museum of Arts Annual Report 2006–2007.</ref> *2006: Two photographs from the Streets of the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina series became part of the ''Katrina Exposed Exhibition'' (June–September) at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA): ''Devastatingly Beautiful'' and ''Ronald McDonald Mississippi Surge-Scape''. *2010: Photographs included in the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film ''History of Photography'' celebration at Sotheby's (New York) titled "History of Photography," which featured a selection of 225 "celebrated" photographers. *The Stern/Smith book about the adventure (Favela da Rocinha, Brazil), along with 20 of their photographic prints from the book were inducted into the Joan Flasch Artists Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. *2006 - 2021: Multiple exhibitions at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, including ''Crosswalks Street Photography'' group exhibit with Garry Winogrand and ''Photographing the Street'' group exhibit in 2006 and 2018, respectively.<ref name=":7" /> The Oklahoma City Museum of Art presented the exhibition ''Shared Lives, Distant Places'', a one-artist exhibition featuring 38 of Smith's works curated by Jessica Provencher. The exhibition included material from his long-term project ''History in Time - Danger Streets''. *2026: The City of Lawrence selected Smith as one of six artists to contribute to the yearly Unmistakable Public Art Exhibition.<ref>{{Cite web |title=He’s photographed war zones, slums, disasters – and for the World Cup, he’s showing off ‘soccer everywhere’ |url=https://www2.ljworld.com/news/general-news/2026/mar/14/hes-photographed-war-zones-slums-disasters-and-for-the-world-cup-hes-showing-off-soccer-everywhere/ |access-date=2026-04-21 |website=LJWorld.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Awards and recognition== *1991: One of four winners of American Photo magazine Photographers Career Competition for his work during the El Salvador Civil war.<ref name="autogenerated1992">Kansas Magazine (1992-Spring) "Lawrence Photographer Gary Mark Smith Wins International American Photo magazine 'Career Photographer's Competition'" Kansas Magazine, The Kansas Department of Commerce quarterly magazine.</ref><ref name="autogenerated3">LeComte, Richard (1992-01-05) Career Consciousness: Photographer Finds National Success; An Artist Journeys to Russia as the Soviet Union Collapses. Arts editor: Arts Section cover story.</ref> *2000: A winner of the ''American Photo'' International Reader's Competition, for his work in Montserrat.<ref name="ljworld2000">"[https://archive.today/20120529203555/http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2000/dec/24/arts_notes96/ Gary Smith wins photography award]", ''Lawrence Journal-World'', December 24, 2000.</ref> *2000: Mason Resnick at ''Black & White Online'' magazine (New York) named Smith's website streetphoto.com as one of the "Top Ten Black & White Photo Web Sites" Online.<ref name="ReferenceA"/><ref>Resnick, Mason (2000-09-01) "[http://www.photogs.com/bwworld/topten0900.html September 2000 Top Ten Photo Web Sites]". Black and White Online magazine.</ref> *In 2012, two photographs from Smith's Rocinha project were nominated for the International Masters Cup Color Award. In 2016, two photographs from his ''Goma'' series were also nominated for the same award. One of the 2016 nominated images, ''Five Kids Atop a Basketball Hoop in Goma'', was later selected as an International Masters Cup Color Award "Photo of the Year.<ref name=":7">{{Cite web|url=https://www.colorawards.com/gallery/index.php?professional=1&amateur=1&photographer=Gary+Smith&title=&country=0&category=0&award=0&search=Search|title=International Color Awards™ {{!}} Winners Gallery|last=Awards|first=International Color|website=www.colorawards.com|language=en|access-date=2018-01-18}}</ref>
==Collections== *2006-2020: Oklahoma City Museum of Art collected 40 of Smith's multi-image artworks and photographs into its permanent collection and promoted them in Exhibition 2020-21. <ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Shared Lives, Distant Places |url=https://www.okcmoa.com/visit/events/shared-lives-distant-places/ |access-date=2025-12-23 |website=Oklahoma City Museum of Art {{!}} OKCMOA |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Photographing the Street |url=https://www.okcmoa.com/visit/events/photographing-the-street/ |access-date=2025-12-23 |website=Oklahoma City Museum of Art {{!}} OKCMOA |language=en-US}}</ref> *2009: Eight photographs from Smith's 2007 ''Streets of the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina'' were accepted into the permanent collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), as part of the hurricane memorial portfolio.<ref name="ReferenceA" /> *2009: A portfolio of 45 of Smith's 1997–1999 ''Holdout Streets of the Montserrat Volcano Disaster'' was accepted into the permanent collection of the Montserrat National Trust. *2011: Collection of archives, research material, negatives, prints, and personal mementos given to the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas created in the artist's name as part of its Kansas Collection, a collection including travel artifacts and more than 6,000 career-producing photographs.<ref name=":6">Mike Krings. Aug. 23, 2011. ''Acclaimed Street Photographer Donates Collection to Kenneth Spencer Research Library: Internationally renowned street photographer Gary Mark Smith — who has shot photos of wars, revolution, peace, volcanic eruptions and most importantly, everyday people — has donated his collection to the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas''. University of Kansas News Service. http://www.news.ku.edu/2011/august/23/photographer.shtml</ref> *2011: The Art Institute of Chicago added a portfolio of 10 of Smith's images from Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro from Smith and Sarah Stern's book Travelogueing the Dark side, and the book itself to its Joan Flasch artist book collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" /> *2020: The Douglas County Historical Society's Watkins Museum of History accepted an exhibit of 135 of Smith's images shot and printed during the COVID-19 pandemic lock down in Lawrence, Kansas.<ref name=":6" /><ref name="Jones, Laurie 1984" /> *2023: The Douglas County Historical Society's Watkins Museum of History requested and accepted a print of Smith and onetime gallery mate William S. Burroughs walking the Lawrence alley past the [https://jazzhaus.com Jazzhaus].<ref name=":6" /><ref name="Jones, Laurie 1984" />
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==External links== {{Commons category}} *[http://www.streetphoto.com Official website]
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