Professional Practice – Photographer Notes – Daniel Alexander

Daniel Alexander is one of my lecturers and decided to give us a lecture on his own work as one of the ‘visiting speakers’. This is the second time he has given a lecture on his work so my notes were brief but here they are anyway, He is an interesting commercial photographer and very passionate about his own work.

He worked with Andrew Haslam on a project called Lettering and Process. He met Haslam when he was a technician and Haslam was a MA Graphic Design lecturer. He said that the project was made possible by digital photography and his tip is when commissioned make sure you get paid for the time you spend developing.

Making Marks is a project on tattoos, simple tattoos the photographs were black and white and developed from the ‘Lettering and Process’ project. It developed from an interest in lettering and looked at the bodies of his subjects as paper with the tattoo as a letter on the page of a book.

Designing the Commonwealth War Graves Mainly took place in France and Belgium. There are different reasons why people visit these cemeteries and graveyards. Some visit to see the graves of family members and some visit as a tourist attraction or historical landmark. This project looked at the commemoration of WWI and WWII casualties and the design process that goes into these graves. He showed us a time lapse he made (also found http://www.danielalexanderphotography.co.uk/portfolio/?page_id=113)  of the ‘Construction of the Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery’ It is very moving and shows a construction process that would not normally be seen.