(As well as access to the live event, you will receive a link to the recording, which will be valid for 14 days)

Discover how Alex’s journey took him from student photographer to hosting YouTube channel ‘The Photographic Eye’ with 180,000 subscribers.

Alex moved from the UK to South Africa when he was nine, he was later invited to join the Army for two years.

Instead, he fell into the welcoming arms of Pretoria Technikon Photoschool where he discovered that he was reasonably good at photography.
Since then has worn many hats – from wannabe Rock ‘n Roll photographer to trying to get new-born babies to sleep for their portraits.

A frustrated architect at heart, Alex always preferred photographing buildings to people, but until Covid closed his studio he was creating award-winning portraits.

The closure of one door was the opening of another. In 2020 Alex started a YouTube channel called The Photographic Eye where he just chatted about the photography that he got a kick out of. A huge number of people enjoyed what he had to say, and now there are over 180,000 subscribers.

“This talk is based on my journey as a photographer over the last 30 years. I flitted from one idea to the next in the hope that at least one of the fads I was chasing would lead me to instant recognition.
At various stages, I have fallen in and out of love with photography both as an interest and a career.

I offer this talk as a cautionary tale about the pitfalls of losing the WHY at the heart of photography. – that weird urge we get to see things photographed (as Garry Winogrand put it).

I hope that this inspires people to help discover their own path through photography which leads them to create images that not only are they proud of, but that came from their soul.”