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My name is Alexa Young

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About Me

I am a photographer and scientist , with a PhD in Neuroscience, whose practice bridges science, photography, and environmental education, using visual storytelling to explore natural processes and inspire care for wildlife. Over the past decade, I have developed a practice combining field research, experimental printing, and community engagement, investigating how natural light, pigments, and organic materials shape analogue images. To understand how nature reacts creating a colour photo has captured my attention. My projects are based on sunlight by playing with film photography and by using the sun to expose my images and water, minerals, and the natural pigments used for toning.

I am currently the project lead of Colour of Survival photographic conservation project documenting the feather-staining behaviour of the Bearded Vulture in the Catalan Pyrenees, in collaboration with the CSIC scientists. 

In 2023, I presented my first solo exhibition at H2O Gallery (Barcelona), featuring experimental cyanotypes that explore wildlife behaviour. During the opening, I led a live cyanotype demonstration, allowing visitors to experience light and chemistry as part of nature’s cycles. My work has also been shown in EXP.22 (Barcelona, 2022), maybe.magazine (2022), The Holy Art Gallery (London, 2021), Analog Forever Magazine (online, 2021), and ByHand: Alternative Processes (international, 2021). My recent residencies at Annette Golaz’s studio in Zurich expanded the research and learning of the tricolour cyanotype technique, where plant-based stains form RGB layers that echo the chromatic strategies of wildlife itself.

Since 2022, I have been an active artist and educator at the Experimental Photo Festival and Agora School of Experimentation, leading workshops on sustainable, nature-based photographic techniques such as cyanotype, anthotype, and chlorophyll printing. My work continues to evolve at the intersection of art, science, and conservation, emphasizing analog processes that reveal the colours, cycles, and rhythms of the natural world.

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My artistic practice is rooted in a deep sensitivity to the colours of nature and the ways they are shaped by light, chemistry, and organic matter. Working primarily with analog film and alternative photographic processes, I explore how images can be formed not only of nature but with nature itself.

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