honorable mention
Alexandro Pelaez united kingdom
Photo © Alexandro Pelaez
title
ECLECTIC
All pictures where taken with a 35mm film camera using 100ISO, 400ISO and 800ISO colour film, applying the double exposure technique. Creating a balance of colours, shapes and symmetries but doubled with new layers of perspectives and appearances in order to sharpen our imagination and take us to a new level of beauty and visionary abstractions. Sharing two images into one in the same shoot creating a dreamlike experience of cities described as: London, as energetic; Hong Kong, as chaotic; Tulum, as dreamy; San Francisco, as vibrant; Rome, as eternal; Shanghai, as imposing; Las Vegas, as temptation; Vietri Sul Mare, as fairy tale; Seoul, as trendy; Miami, as Latin quarter; Procida, as colourful; Venice, as magic.
in London who initially started his professional career in Advertising in USA. Having moved
to London in 2001, Alexandro completed his second BA (Hons) at Central Saint Martins,
University of the Arts London. Since then, Alexandro has received numerous photography
awards around the world and has worked over the years on various photography projects
with different clients in the UK, Latvia, Germany, Italy, France, Hong Kong, China, Thailand,
Mexico and USA.
Recently, Alexandro received the 2025 Honourable Mention Award at the Fine Art
Photography Awards, Silver Winner Award at the 2024 Prix de la Photographie Paris, Gold
Winner at the 2021 New York Photography Awards and 2nd place award at the 2019 IPA
International Photography Awards in New York.
Alexandro’s latest “New Yorkers and their Environments” series won the 2020 Portfolio
Awards at the San Francisco Bay International Photography Awards.
Alexandro’s latest accomplishment was featuring the portrait of the Venezuelan Artist
Carlos Cruz Diez at Centre Pompidou in Malaga in 2024 during his solo exhibition “Carlos
Cruz Diez – El color en movimiento”.
Alexandro latest exhibition was at the Saatchi Gallery (START 2023) and his last two Solo
Exhibitions were “Eclectic” (2019) at Bermondsey Project Space (London, UK) and
“Londoners And Their Environments” (2018) at the Herrick Gallery (London, UK).
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entry description
ECLECTIC, is a series of double exposure photographs of Street Environments of different cities, countryside and beaches from around the world. Where each city has its own distinctive pace of elements, circumstances, colours; an array of miscellanea that shape what we call memory; a human quality as ephemeral as ever-changing.All pictures where taken with a 35mm film camera using 100ISO, 400ISO and 800ISO colour film, applying the double exposure technique. Creating a balance of colours, shapes and symmetries but doubled with new layers of perspectives and appearances in order to sharpen our imagination and take us to a new level of beauty and visionary abstractions. Sharing two images into one in the same shoot creating a dreamlike experience of cities described as: London, as energetic; Hong Kong, as chaotic; Tulum, as dreamy; San Francisco, as vibrant; Rome, as eternal; Shanghai, as imposing; Las Vegas, as temptation; Vietri Sul Mare, as fairy tale; Seoul, as trendy; Miami, as Latin quarter; Procida, as colourful; Venice, as magic.
about the photographer
Alexandro Pelaez is a Multi-award winning Latin American fine art film photographer basedin London who initially started his professional career in Advertising in USA. Having moved
to London in 2001, Alexandro completed his second BA (Hons) at Central Saint Martins,
University of the Arts London. Since then, Alexandro has received numerous photography
awards around the world and has worked over the years on various photography projects
with different clients in the UK, Latvia, Germany, Italy, France, Hong Kong, China, Thailand,
Mexico and USA.
Recently, Alexandro received the 2025 Honourable Mention Award at the Fine Art
Photography Awards, Silver Winner Award at the 2024 Prix de la Photographie Paris, Gold
Winner at the 2021 New York Photography Awards and 2nd place award at the 2019 IPA
International Photography Awards in New York.
Alexandro’s latest “New Yorkers and their Environments” series won the 2020 Portfolio
Awards at the San Francisco Bay International Photography Awards.
Alexandro’s latest accomplishment was featuring the portrait of the Venezuelan Artist
Carlos Cruz Diez at Centre Pompidou in Malaga in 2024 during his solo exhibition “Carlos
Cruz Diez – El color en movimiento”.
Alexandro latest exhibition was at the Saatchi Gallery (START 2023) and his last two Solo
Exhibitions were “Eclectic” (2019) at Bermondsey Project Space (London, UK) and
“Londoners And Their Environments” (2018) at the Herrick Gallery (London, UK).
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