Mushrooms

cyano and SEM

kriliam photography

yeastograms

Live microscopy performance

lichen on grave stones

PHOTOGRAPHY

Alex is an every day wildlife photographer seldom seen without her long lens slung over her shoulder. The camera acts as a touch stone to maintain focus and ensures every effort to observe ambient wildlife or as a stand in for a foraging basket. She has been photographing birds obsessively since 2020, previously, her wild mushroom photography obsession spanned over a decade.

All of her wildlife photography is submitted to iNaturalist, the scientific database she is an official ambassador for. Her favorite photographs of birds, mushrooms and tiny spiders exist briefly as IG images and ephemera for her research programs.

The ephemeral nature of her fast nature photography is the flip side to her analogue photography.

She enjoys esoteric and invented techniques like SEM to cyanotype, dobsonian telescope to paper, digiscoping, yeastograms and fugitive lensless or electricityless photography and non-standard use of darkroom techniques and materials like krilian, anthotypes, chemelumin/spore printing and bioluminescence contact printing where the photographs act as relics that hold the magic of the provenance of the place, time or organism, celebrate the light that is the life and represent a pilgrimage or ritual action. Her paper or textile photographs hold the stories of the actions that made them.

She's had phases of urbex/rurex photography and specialized in photographing train, plane and ship wrecks. She loves photographing algae growing on machines and splintered buildings as they trigger her visual-auditory synesthesia.