Alex Llewellyn Walker

These dice are individually made hand-crafted resin, some with dye and/or physical inclusions. The craft of pouring resin, formulating dye powders, sanding and inking these were as much the end goal as the photographs of the things.; learning a craft for the purposes of testing lighting.

Seeing Through is a 8.25” x 5.25” Art-Book printed on semi-translucent vellum and coil bound in London Ontario.
A meditation on sight, visibility, and windows, this newest work is a small-run Art Book. Contact via email if interested in a copy.

Floriography is a photo book composed of salvaged fragmented card messages and flowers rendered through a flatbed scanner. The imagery and essay talk about the broken semiotics of human communication and the parallels between flowers, photography and death.
11 in by 8.5 in,
2018
$65
Purchase

A key element in the story of photography is remembering the past. Slideshow deals with themes of nostalgia, reverence for analogue processes and the time-melding ability of photography by overlaying portraits and locations with images on 35mm slides. 
In this comparison of contemporary person or place with another abstracted set of people or location, I bring forward the privileging of visual information; some images contain 1:1 comparisons while others leave vague and unknowable comparisons. 
2015

Photography is, among other things, a technical tool; Light writing. The analogue, handmade gear, and the over-complication of imaging are at stake here. These images are made digitally, with the camera lens capturing the scene inside a homemade Camera Obscura. The scene is being projected lens-lessly overtop a duplicate image of the same scene on a sheet of Fujifilm instant film. Current analogue process, reiterated by a pre-photographic tool, encapsulated digitally. 

Each location is being seen through early 17th century eyes, through analogue eyes, through digital eyes - dissected through layers of time and practice.
2014

The Human Condition is that of sociality, community, inter-reliance. Urbanization however, has created a collective delusion of isolation. There is a moment in the public world where the rules of ideal physical distance, of eye-contact, are ignored for the most minute time. When passing someone, we share space, we are close, and it is allowed because it is temporary. It is photography's ability to extend those moments, to compress the distance, to honour the time people spend together.

The image-naming system is derived from Rorschach plates, which mirror the imagery visually and through the invitation to draw meaning from the person-to-person connections without any proof the meanings exist.
2014

While exploring and cataloguing my Grandfather's archive I discovered a series of unexplainable images. With no one left to draw further information from, the only knowledge to be gained is from the image itself, including an inscription on the negatives referring to a short course taught by my Grandfather at Kent State University in 1946. To express the task of unveiling and researching these lost photographs, I created a series of intermediaries.
The images were obscured by a coating of paint, paper wrapping, a layer of sand, and a scratch-paper coating. 
The audience was invited to melt away the paint with a light acid, tear away the wrapping, brush through the sand, and scratch away the coating, discovering the imagery as I had, piece by piece, and only so far as the surface level.
2014

The Toronto streets in the small hours of the morning contain few people, and allow entrance into a unique frame of perspective. The buildings, the lights, and the captive trees all interact and reflect off of one another, showing harmony and struggle. 
2014

This compilation of images and minor projects all centre around various analogue means of production, from wet collodion plates, to 4x5 negatives, 35mm, and scan compilations.
2013-2016

This collection comprises my continuous photographing on the streets of Toronto. Pared back to the simplicity of a fixed lens and colour 35mm film, I am interested in digging into location, population and interaction in our metropolis.