Alexander James

Grace Ophelia Emperors Truth

Isis Bound Bitter Sweet Table Multiply

Morpho Rhetenor Helena The Great Leveler Caligo Eurilochus

Morpho Alexandrovana Morpho Amathonte 0220 Morpho Peleides

My photographs are always presented as-shot with no post-production either traditional or digital; seeing the process as cathartic rather than a critical one, dedication to in camera purity establishes a predominant focal point for my practice.

I aim to be a genuine exemplar of authentic artistic expression, untrained, unsullied by achedemicism, searching for my own powerful and uncorrupted vision. Now working as a midcareer artist, attempting to present the beguiling beauty of our everyday confinements, the essence of my images is derived from the ordinary, displaced and the overlooked.

Recent bodies of work have been charged with environmental and social issues that bring to question the longevity of consumerism and the meaning of life in a society dominated by materialism; the transience of secular objects acting as a reminder of the meaninglessness of a superficial existence.

The quality of the works and the purity of the process are at the core of my practice, through which I seek to keep photography relevant by engaging my art with key political and intellectual issues of our time. Alexander James

Octavia Gallery is delighted to represent Alexander James for international Europe and USA sales.