about this guyA
lex lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Born in Massachusetts, grew up in New York and Vermont. Attended Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film Production. Alex started taking photographs around the same time he began compulsively keeping a journal as a teenager. He's worked with 16mm, 35mm, medium, and large format. He especially enjoys long and multiple exposures. He keeps a modest 35mm kit, which he uses to take blatantly sentimental and spooky photos as often as he can afford paying Walgreens to develop the negatives.
He believes in film. But more because of the discipline and good voodoo than dogmatic adherence to a certain material. He (still) keeps many illegible notebooks. His dysgraphia means most words are squished in like clumps of dough, having forgotten or added letters arbitrarily, sloppily correcting them as if anyone else would attempt to read them.
Luckily typing involves automatic spelling correction and convenient lines underneath broken rules; it also raises the probabbility of others' reading what has been written. Cameras aren't too different from words. Instead of rearranging the alphabet into the rubik's cube of paragraphs, with a camera light is divided into exchanged variables.
Even mistakes reveal the strained shape of an f stop pulling against a shutter speed against a film speed holding light in a spiderweb, nestling real shapes in a fine mesh of estimation.