UnScene Artists
Alex lame
Second Place - Decorazon Gallery 2009
Artist Bio
Alex Leme discovered his love of photography at an early age through his many family trips around Brazil where he was born and raised. From these roots sprang a desire to explore the world and its innumerable facets through the lens of a camera. He attended the University of Westminster in London, England then completed his formal education in 2002 at Cambury College in Goiana, Brazil. After teaching English, producing theater, and working as a marketing director, he moved to San Francisco, California where he juggled even more roles: cab driver, restaurant manager, and travel agent. 2004 marked the beginning of a successful career in corporate finance as a consultant for a major investment firm. After changing financial institutions in 2006, Alex followed his heart to Little Rock, Arkansas. In 2009, he answered his heart’s calling by abandoning his financial career in order to pursue his lifelong dream as a photographer.
Artists Statement: The “Egg” series is an ongoing project that explores the prolific symbolism associated with eggs. One of the most comprehensive symbols, equally suggestive in spiritual, physiological and cosmological sense – egg can stand for primordial chaos, the universal matrix, the great Deep, the Virgin Mother and the Cosmos, among other things. This series is also an attempt to entice our senses of sight, smell, taste and touch, perhaps even taking us on a trip down memory lane. Through direct interaction with the materials and clear intention to become part of the image, I try to challenge, the sometimes “questioned”, role of photography as an art form. What is art? Or better yet, what isn’t?
