ALEX'S THINGS
ALEX'S THINGS
Not really sure how to write about my work. I've spent the last few years attempting to understand the relationship between uncertainty and belonging. It's been a process of grounding my research of identity and the modern context inside personal and vocational practice. The films have been part of both understanding and answering questions of uncertainty and how we connect.
WE'LL SEE is a 25 minute meta-documentary about Visual Anthropology. It took me the better part of a year to research, write, produce, shoot and edit while I studied for my Master's in Manchester.
Here's the (10,000) words that accompanied the film — the research, logic, strategy, questions and theory. Read it alongside the film, instead of it or not at all. Foucault and Bauman, the ethics and morality of research and storytelling in visual anthropology. (2025).
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And here's the work that preceded all of that. About meaning-making in the modern world, group and individual identity, and uncertainty. Social psychology, sociology and semiotics. (2023).
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MORE WORK?
SIDE VIEW is a 15-minute-long experimental doc exploring intimacy and its ephemerality. It relied on extensive interviewing and revealed itself in personal archives. Made with Kyra ❤️
This video was an exercise that emerged alongside a wider ethnographic research project. Edited together in a morning. Shout out John Wilson.
A three shot exercise again made with Kyra. About play, and what happens to it.
Made under/alongside award winning filmmaker Manman Yang. It's an observational (very academic) film following an English language class for adult migrants. Neither the sound or lighting helped us, but we wanted to capture what was happening in the room. A room of adults and outsiders, coming together like children.
PHOTOGRAPHY
I've taken photos for a long time, and at uni it was my minor for design. It probably went on to inform the work I did after. Watching and capturing something I guess.
SHAPED is a visual poem I made in the first year of lockdown, bringing together Indigenous stories and my own experience.
SUPPORTING NURSE AND CONSUMER INTERACTIONS VIA VISUAL DESIGN was initially a project on wayfinding in partnership with Nepean Hospital Acute Mental Health Unit. Through intense primary and secondary research however, it was reframed as a navigational tool to overcome the key communication challenges in the environment itself.
A SERIES OF SELFHOOD PORTRAITS is a re-photographic work I exhibit in 2021. There's an accompanying essay too. It's based on the family archive and is another exploration of self and family.
MORE THINGS
CREATING THE WORKPLACE OF THE FUTURE was a consultancy project undertaken with development company Stockland and their Placemaking Team. Via deep engagement with key stakeholders the team redesigned the organisations customer engagement strategy for increased adaptability and resilience in a dynamic post-pandemic market.
ON IDENTITY is a zine - print design - focused on the visual character of places. This one was on Zetland.
CURB PARKING was a startup developed by a multidisciplinary team focused speculatively on local problems.