Studio
L.E.D.
Edith Clever 2023 (film)
Five Car Stud 2018 (film)
Decay
Stadsfotograaf 2012
Thrash
Approach
Vitrine 2008
CV
Commissioned work
6am.space
Personal Mapping - City Photographer 2010/2011
Combination of digital and analogue photography / C-prints on Baryta in various sizes
Following selection of photographs have been part of the first edition of ‘City Photographer Antwerp' (2010 -2011)
For the duration of 2 years, 5 photographers were asked to document Antwerp, resulting in 5 unique visions, presented in a book and 2 exhibitions.
Contributing artists: Patrick De Roo, Elisabeth Broekaert, Dan Zollmann, Alex Salinas and Maarten Vanden Abeele
Exhibition in Fomu, Antwerp
Exhibition in Gallery 51, Antwerp
Stadsfotograaf Antwerpen 2010-2011, Book by Lannoo
City Photographer Antwerp 2010/2011 - Fomu - 2012
Urban Impressions
During his walks through town, the other flaneur, Alex Salinas, mainly has eye for urban details. His style is direct and no-nonsense. He doesn’t tell stories but highlights fragments out of their context. In a resolute subjective way Salinas associates color images in a hybrid sequence. Different formats and genres get mixed in one photo-installation on a wall, which reminds us more of a city dweller’s photographic diary than of a representative image of the city. His stealthy look, sensitive for abstractions in form and color that pop up in the corner of his eye, is reminiscent of William Eggleston, for whom the most banal object could deliver the most wonderful photograph. It all depends on who is looking, and how one’s looking: from unusual points of view, with attention for the artificial and for the way the camera can transform the reality or scale of objects. Two girls with one head, a pile of sand on a wharf at the riverside becomes a mountain landscape, a small kitschy lamp on the ceiling suggest a sultry pop atmosphere. Only the aerial photograph offers a panoramic overview… . In the lyrical snapshot of a fallen leaf in pink and green on the tarmac one sees that a raw framing can highlight the fragility of things. Salinas not only cites images in the image, like a television screen, but also swirling texts like “it’s up to you” on a billboard for the vocation of priesthood and graffiti “if you toucha car i breaka your face”. This fairly arbitrary but personal and suggestive collage 'Stills & Signs' lends itself mostly to be enjoyed as a visual poem. (translated from Dutch)
Inge Henneman,
Curator Fomu Antwerp