Alison Zarrow's photographs have been shown at juried exhibitions nationwide and in Canada, including the 2005 Juried Exhibition of Women Photographers at New York City's Pen and Brush Club, Newspace Center for Photography's 1st Annual National Juried Exhibition in Portland, the Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina's Celebrating the Jewish American Experience, and at Drexel University. In 2005 her work was the subject of a solo exhibition at the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa (Selectol, Dektol & Selenium: How I Spent My Summer Vacation). One of her photos appeared on the inside front cover of the 25th anniversary edition of iris, the biannual journal sponsored by the University of Virginia Studies in Women and Gender Program, as well as in the student winner section of the Photo District News 2007 Annual.

Ms. Zarrow is the winner of two national photography competitions and was also the recipient of Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Program's 2006 National Silver Photography Portfolio Award. In 2005 she received the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa's Young Artist of the Year Award. One of her photographs was selected as a finalist in the 12th Annual International Architecture Photography Exhibition held by the American Institute of Architects, Miami. Her photography has been the subject of feature articles in the Tulsa World and Urban Tulsa and has been mentioned in New York's Village Voice.

In 2007, Ms. Zarrow was selected as a Summer Fellow by the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University to research and photograph her home state’s historic all-Black communities. A small volume of that work, Wish You Were Here: Oklahoma’s All-Black Towns 100 Years after Statehood, was published in the fall of 2007; additional information is available at www.allblacktowns.blogspot.com.

Ms. Zarrow is also the author of Abandoned Tulsa, published in February 2006 by Furnace Press. Abandoned Tulsa combines Zarrow's urban decay photography and essays to provide a unique view of her hometown from the perspective of its abandoned and forgotten structures. Furnace Press is a publishing collaborative between Ars Subterranea and Place in History, two New York-based arts groups focused upon the documentation and artistic exploration of the urban environment. Selected images from Abandoned Tulsa can be viewed at www.abandonedtulsa.com; the book can be purchased at www.furnacepress.com and on Amazon.com.

Noted documentary photographer Julia Solis, in her foreword to Abandoned Tulsa, characterized Zarrow as "an astonishingly young photographer [with] a keen eye for the unliked and unlikely."

Ms. Zarrow is an undergraduate at Stanford University.