Allen Hess’ photographs have been exhibited at the National Museum of American Art Washington, DC; International Museum of Photography and Film – George Eastman House Rochester, New York; The Historic New Orleans Collection; The Mariner’s Museum – Newport News, Virginia; The Institute of Contemporary Art - Boston, Massachusetts.

He has received grants from the Maine Photographic Workshops, Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Photography Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1981 and 1990.

His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Museum of American Art, Washington,DC; New Orleans Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; International Museum of Photography and Film Rochester, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Historic New Orleans Collection; Hallmark Cards; Kansas City; Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, Quebec; Paine Webber, New York; Metropolitan Life Insurance Co, New York; A. G. Edwards, St. Louis, Missouri.

Published work may be found in Between Home and Heaven, Contemporary American Landscape Photography, National Museum of American Art 1992; The New Color, by Sally Eauclaire, Abbeville Press, New York 1981; American Heritage, October 1996 New York; The Historic New Orleans Collection Quarterly, Fall 1995 Ð New Orleans, Louisiana; Color Photography, A Working Manual by Henry Horenstein 1995 and User's Guide to the View Camera by Jim Stone.