Alexandra Catiere
Alexandra creates elegant compositions that have their own interior life. Her quest to capture an invisible world – a spirit that fills the space around us – gives her images a timeless, magnetic quality. Her thoughtful compositions reveal her fascination with the silvery surface and mood of early photography. She eliminates the non-important information and focuses on the essential. In her personal work Alexandra uses her camera to conduct an investigation of universal human nature and her portraits have a quiet dignity. She explores what seeing looks like through her subtle use of light within classical, elegant framing. Alexandra’s frequent use of black and white, or a muted colour palette, adds to an overarching aesthetic sense of refinement and ephemerality.
Born in Minsk in 1978, Alexandra Catiere, known as Sasha, moved to New York to study at the International Center of Photography in 2002, going on to assist at the studios of Irving Penn and Yuri Kuper. She has exhibited internationally, including Paris Photo 2009 and a solo show at Pobeda Gallery, Moscow in 2010.
Alexandra has shot for Kenzo and her work has featured in Le Monde, Crash, The Gentlewoman, Dazed & Confused, Liberty Magazine, The New Yorker and T Magazine (The New York Times). In 2011 she shot the cover art for R&B and soul singer Emeli Sandé’s new album Heaven. Alexandra lives in Paris and London.
