Alex Richardson

My abstract photographs aim to challenge the distinction between ‘artwork’, and image. Rethinking what makes an image, an image? Due to mass-media, the overconsumption of images has become an addiction. I aim to create images that aren’t consumed, to make viewers linger.

Inspired by abstract expressionistic painting, landscapes, and sculptural forms, I’m drawn to organic arrangements of reflective materials. With light as my medium, capturing these reflective materials on black and white film distorts the original material into an abstract compositional form of grain and texture. My process of making is centred around a fascination of textures and light. My aim is to present works that are visually atmospheric, ephemeral, and evocative.