Links: Main Photo Site, Writing, More Info
Bio: Alex Geana was the youngest photographer to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the Chelsea Hotel with a large installation piece, combining photography and text. He wrote a book called Side Step Me about pill-popping, sex, and nightlife. Featuring his poetry, photography, and short stories. Three Tables, a play, was produced off-off Broadway about wealth and table banter.
He combines the art of storytelling with the quickness of the moment. Searching for an immediate and unique reaction from models, trying to capture the often-unnoticed juncture. Fascinated by the way series of photos come together. In gallery work he produces large installments, often combining photomontages with poetry. Alex is currently shooting and putting a show together for the Leslie Lohman gallery. Alex Geana hates writing about himself in the third person. People tell him he has good hair.
Starting out life in Romania, coming to the States at an early age and being here ever since. He went to school for luxury hotel management, giving him his eagle eye for people (and food). Now a confirmed Manhattanite, possessed of a shrewd yet compassionate outsider perspective on contemporary society. He loves observing movement. Alex has a sensitive eye for the flora and fauna of the Big Apple. A consummate lover of people and their stories, he is able to bring interest to the most mundane experiences of living.
He tries to go to a museum or a gallery at least once a week. And often perplexes friends. He's never dressed in drag.