Episode 43 - Alex Stoddard Interview
Alex Stoddard
Fantasy, Surrealism & the Human Form
Alex Stoddard is a conceptual portrait photographer based in Los Angeles. Born and raised in rural Georgia, he began taking self-portraits as a teenager — photography as escape, as world-building, as a means of becoming someone else entirely. He is entirely self-taught and relies on instinct above all else.
His debut book, INSEX, explores the parallels between metamorphosis in the natural world and human coming-of-age — staging highly stylised images that pull viewers into a colourfully dark world of budding sexuality and crawling insects.
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"A self-taught conceptual photographer who began by photographing himself — and turned isolation into an entire world."
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I hosted the Archipelago Photography Podcast from 2020–2022, interviewing photographers I admire from around the world. Today I'm focused full-time on portrait and headshot sessions in Ottawa and Gatineau — bringing the same curiosity about craft to every session.
