Alex Braverman — a bio note

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Alex Braverman is a fine art photographer. He was born in Lithuania, but has lived extensively in Israel, South Africa and the USA. He specializes in dance photography and dramatic cityscapes. Alex spent a year photographing the Bruce Wood Dance Company in Fort Worth; he also attended private workshops in New York City and Norway by the prominent dance photographer, Lois Greenfield. A day before the workshop in New York City, Alex photographed the dramatic cityscape surrounding him, and his photo “Atlas” won the Grand Prize in the International Annual Contest by Popular Photography Magazine. The photo was published in the January 2009 issue.

What separates Alex from the pack? He does not take photographs of objects or people — he photographs themes. He captures a beautiful dancer in one moment of the dance, and in this photo he presents the very nature of dance itself. An empty street is never an architectural exhibit, but a habitat of thousands, a setting for despair or delight. In his photography Alex amplifies the philosophical and cultural underpinnings of his generation, drawing on the experience of living on four continents.

From the press:

“Photography is about what does not meet the eye,” writes Lithuanian-American photographer Alex Braverman, a motto that resonates throughout his sustained series on dancers and cities. In both, he and his lens are after ephemeral details, moments that disappear as quickly as they come. Freezing time, pausing movement, layering images and perspectives, he hints at the unseen, creating possibilities for new revelations. By shooting bustling cities and bodies he isolates the motion and dynamism that breathes vigor into life.

Braverman works in an incredible range of styles, from classical black and white images of dancers suspended in mid-air, seemingly weightless against sparse backdrops, to sharp, explosively colorful and compositionally elaborate reconstructed cityscapes. In both these minimalist and maximizing modes, however, his eye remains unmistakable. Whether superimposing street scenes and buildings in a distorted palette, or capturing dancers mid-movement followed by shadows that are not their own, he strives toward impossible visions and enigmatic images, capturing a fleeting reality inexhaustibly rich in detail. Braverman comes thrillingly close to exposing the invisible.

Agora Gallery, NY

Relevant and irrelevant education

Major exhibitions, publications and awards

Questions? Comments? Ideas? Share them! Email alex@platophoto.com.