Alex Frayne has been involved in film and images from his earliest school days. Beginning with an 8mm camera in hand he has continued his love affair with the medium through school and then at Flinders University (BA). He has made short films a feature film (MODERN LOVE) and more recently his stills photography work has earned acclaim, most notably the ADELAIDE NOIR SERIES. Images from this body of work are held in collections in Australia and overseas. He lives in Adelaide and is represented in America by Michael Ash Partners New York.
He shoots mainly analogue film formats, including 6x6cm, 6x9cm and 6x7cm 120 fiilm.
Simon Caterson, for The Australian Newspaper writes: "Frayne's eerily still urban landscapes have been likened in their classical framing and pervasive sense of strangeness in the familiar, to the work of Stanley Kubrick and Jeffrey Smart..." (October 2017)
He has recently had 2 books published by Wakefield Press.
-Adelaide Noir, 86p, 2015
-Theatre of Life, Portraits - 80p, 2017
A third and final book for Wakefield Press, LANDSCAPES, is due for release xmas 2020.