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To date, photographer Elizabeth Alex has had her work featured in the likes of Tavi Gevinson’s Rookie Mag, fashion mag Nylon and creative magazine, Pony Anarchy. And for good reason, it’s youthful, bright and incredible intriguing.
Alex always knew she wanted to do something creative in the fashion industry, and she became interested in photography in high school after doing work experience in Visual Merchandising at Country Road.
“I got taken to a shoot that week and I remember thinking that the photographer looked like he was having the most fun. I took one of my parents film cameras and started shooting and I was hooked,” Alex says.
When it comes to initial ideas and development stages, Alex explains that she has a concrete process that she sticks to, which allows for a more fluid and instinctual method for the day of shooting.
“I start with colours and then make a soundtrack that helps determine the mood. Then I find reference images, followed by locations and then start organising people for the shoot from there. But when I’m actually shooting, it turns into an instinctual thing- I just go with my gut,”
“Photography can do almost anything you want it to. It tells people what you decide to tell them. I also love that all of these creative minds can come together (stylists, make up artists, hair stylists, models…) and as a photographer you can capture and help create a collaboration, within a image, of all of their ideas,” Alex explains.
