“Nobody can commit photography alone. It is possible to have at least the illusion of reading and writing in isolation, but photography does not foster such attitudes. If there is any sense in deploring the growth of corporate and collective art forms such as the film and the press, it is surely in relation to the previous individualist technologies that these new forms corrode . . . To understand the medium of the photograph is quite impossible, then, without grasping its relations to other media, both old and new.”³ (McLuhan 1994, 189-202)
“Nobody can commit photography alone. It is possible to have at least the illusion of reading and writing in isolation, but photography does not foster such attitudes. If there is any sense in deploring the growth of corporate and collective art forms such as the film and the press, it is surely in relation to the previous individualist technologies that these new forms corrode . . . To understand the medium of the photograph is quite impossible, then, without grasping its relations to other media, both old and new.”³ (McLuhan 1994, 189-202)
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Currently Visuals Editor at Dwell
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Hello! My name is Alex. I have a passion for connecting people and ideas through clear visual storytelling.
I am a proud trans woman and an advocate of integrity, ethics, and social responsibility. I believe wholeheartedly that images are incredibly powerful tools for seeking collective truth.
Are you a visual artist that has a story pitch, a portfolio, or a photo/photo-illustrative essay that you’d like to share? Let’s connect.
“Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act. Action and speech need the surrounding presence of others no less that fabrication needs the surrounding presence of nature for its material, and of a world in which to place the finished product. Fabrication is surrounded by and in constant contact with the world: action and speech are surrounded by and in constant contact with the web of the acts and words of other men.”⁴ (Arendt 1958, 167).
“Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act. Action and speech need the surrounding presence of others no less that fabrication needs the surrounding presence of nature for its material, and of a world in which to place the finished product. Fabrication is surrounded by and in constant contact with the world: action and speech are surrounded by and in constant contact with the web of the acts and words of other men.”⁴ (Arendt 1958, 167).