Alex

Alex is a complex and versatile artist working in Paris, France, with more than 15 years in the field of professional photography. Alex loves experiment in photography like Polaroids, pinhole or strange cameras.

Some of his Polaroids are included in the book Polaroid Now: The History and Future of Polaroid Photography.

“I choose to do the largest part of my work in analog format and mostly on Polaroid. I don’t do it because of nostalgia. Nostalgia is a feeling almost totally foreign to me. I believe I do it for the tangibility and materiality of the Polaroid. I’ve always preferred touching or looking at an actual photograph than seeing it on an electronic display.

Being educated both as a scientist and as an artist I believe I’m a strange mix of order and chaos. On one hand there’s my astrophotography (which sometimes is taken with a scientific purpose) a field of photography where I have to be very methodical and analytical. And, of course, pretty technical. On the other hand, there’s my artistic photography, and especially my personal work. Anything can happen there, I don’t care too much about technique and I have a very instinctual approach to it. Fashion photography is a game with no rules for me. But, at the same time, you have to know all the rules.

My Polaroid photography is a series of controlled mistakes, a mix of competence and naïveté.”

Alex is known worldwide for his astrophotography and is a member of TWAN – The World at Night. TWAN is a program to create and exhibit a collection of stunning landscape astrophotographs and time-lapse videos of the world’s most beautiful and historic sites against a nighttime backdrop of stars, planets and celestial events.

Clients: Elle, InStyle, Spaghetti Mag, Men’s Health, Tabu, The One, Beau Monde, VIVA, Diva, Playboy, Maxim, Cariere, Maria Lucia Hohan, Ludmila Corlateanu, George Neagu, Wilhelmina Arz, Smiling Shoes, Condur by Alexandru, Prive Boutique, YOKKO, AVON, Oriflame, stiletto.ro, fashionandbeauty.ro, Best Models, MRA Models, Yes Models, Baneasa Shopping City, Avanpremiere Concept, The Practice, Leo Burnett, McCann Erickson, G2, Wash & Go, Mediafax, Attica Media, Sanoma Hearst, Edipresse, Canon, VitaePro, Innovasjon Norge.

Published in: Vogue Italia, Vogue US, National Geographic Magazine, Sky & Telescope, etc.

Exhibitions

Leica Tour, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2025

Share, Tag or Dye, Bucharest, 2022

Franceses exploradores de las estrellas viajando por el mundo, French Embassy in Colombia, 2022

Fotografiets Dag, The Norwegian Museum for Photography, Preus Museum, 2019

Polaroiders on Tour, Castelfranco Veneto, 2019

Between Dog and Wolf Expolaroid, Cluj Napoca, 2019

Silk Road at Night, Shanghai, 2018

Northern Lights, Paris, 2017

Silk Road at Night, Beijing, 2017

OLED Aurora, Bucharest, 2017

Astronomy Photographer of the Year, Greenwich, 2016

Astrophoto 2015, Tirgoviste, 2015

Lights from the North, Bucharest, 2015

Astronomy Photographer of the Year, Greenwich, 2014

Astronomy Photographer of the Year, Greenwich, 2013

Skyphotography, Bucharest, 2013

Astronomy Day, Bucharest, 2013

Astrophoto 2012, Tirgoviste, 2012

Vama under Oscar Lights, Vama Veche, 2011

AVANPREMIERE, Bucharest, 2010

From the Eye to Infinity, Bucharest, 2010

Lifestyle XXI, Cluj Napoca, 2010

From the Eye to Infinity, Timisoara, 2009

Astrophoto 2008, Tirgoviste, 2008

Young Romanian Photographers, Camera 80, Bucharest, 2007

DEBUT – Bucharest Photo Club, Bucharest, 2005

Between Earth and Sky, Bucharest, 2005

Astrophoto 2004, Tirgoviste, 2004