About me
John Alexander is a fine-art photographer known for composing abstract patterns from distressed surfaces encountered on his travels.
'There is something really fascinating about how a surface reacts the environmental conditions over its lifetime. My subject will always have its own complex history. Part of the fun is that the stories of how the textures evolved are mostly unknown. We can use our imaginations to conjure our own meaning behind the specific colours, shapes, lines and cracks within the photograph. I’m always interested to hear what people see in the images, everyone sees something different.
‘Producing my textures is more photographically challenging than you might think! It is not just a case of seeing a wall and then photographing it. I adopt many photographic techniques to ensure that my subject possesses the incredible detail and sharpness that makes the print so unique, even when printed a metre wide.
A snippet of how I create an image in the filed taken from a video I made in Northumberland.