ALEX STODDARD

Alex Stoddard is a photographer based in Los Angeles, California.

He was born in Jacksonville, Florida and raised in Georgia, where he discovered a love for photography at an early age. He creates dark, narrative portraiture that thrives on the fantastical and the fragility of the human experience.

The morbid touch of his work is what caught my attention right a way. Since seven years working in the fashion business i have come across many photographers but i can tell you this guy is up for something big!

here are some selected works of him which i personally find very appealing.

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"Since the early 2000s, Yvonne Todd has emerged as an uncannily subtle exponent of what might be called The Aesthetics of Meanness, an artist who pursues social discomfort—ours included—as tenaciously as Ansel Adams pursued light on the flanks of Yosemite." Justin Paton. New Zealand photographer Yvonne Todd uses the generic language of commercial studio photography and quotes mainstream pop-culture, but she produces off-kilter images that express a personal mythology. She is best known for her images of female ‘characters’. These portraits are highly styled; using wigs, costumes, makeup and even false teeth. Todd women seem to suffer from some soap-operatic malaise, explicit or implicit, be they cosmeticians, cripples, modest Christians, anorexics, cult members, showgirls or tragic heiresses. Her work has a complex relation with feminism. "My favourite author when I was twelve or thirteen, Virgina Andrews, wrote gothic tale...

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