Hi there!
My name is Alex and welcome to my about page, where you should get a bit more of an overview of me as a person.
If you’re looking to contact me you can find more details on my contact page.
If you would like to see the kinds of images I create, you can check out my home page which has links to galleries of my work, as well as a sample of some recent projects I am most proud of.
Gosh where do I even start? Hello again, Alex here, welcome to my quick crash course on my life and how I started working with cameras.
I grew up out in regional South Australia, about halfway between Adelaide and the state border with Victoria. Well, to be honest I only half grew up out there, spending a lot of my childhood exploring all ends of this beautiful country with my parents and two siblings, camped in a fold out canvas camper trailer which we took out for months at a time every two years or so, among the smaller excursions. It was on these trips my parents started encouraging me to take photos, and submitting them to small local competitions through Mum’s contacts as an art teacher.
My first “real” camera was my Grandpa’s old 35mm film camera – a Nikon EM from the early 1980s. I was thirteen maybe and had been taking photos with whatever I could get my hands on that could at the time, usually my iPod or if i was lucky one of my parents smartphones (they were still very new at the time), and upon hearing that he packaged up some of the things he had lying around and sent them to me from Sydney where he and my Nonna live.
My Grandpa and that camera is what truly made me fall in love with photography (If only I knew how much his encouragement would lead to my spending on film and developing…). I still have and use a lot of the things he gave me including the EM (it still works! over 40 years old now and still shoots wonderfully), particularly for my more personal projects and street photography work. If you ever see me with a rainbow strap holding up one of my cameras that’s his from the 80s, and has been on every camera I’ve owned at least once.
In highschool I took to Media Arts like a duck to water, where I started playing around with digital cameras and learning image processing. One thing lead to another there and all of a sudden I was helping out on volunteer shoots with one of the Media Arts teachers, assisting local schools with video productions of special events and talks.
After I’d finished highschool my family and I moved to Adelaide, which although that was a rocky start with Covid hitting shortly after – has been a blast and lead to some awesome opportunities. When I don’t have a camera in my hand I either have a guitar or you can find me crossed swords and fencing against some of my friends.
I shoot all sorts now, but I’ve found myself really drawn to capturing moments and the action that I found a little rarer in country life. Anything with energy such as events I live for, but sharing stories of the people I meet and the places I see through my work with portraits and documentary will always be my other loves, it’s honestly hard to rate them.
So if you’ve got something I mind that anything on this site has made you think “yeah that’s perfect” about a project you have in mind feel free to drop me a line!