Welcome to Leica and I

Alexander Beck is a British photographer, born 1974 in Hamburg Germany. He was introduced to photography by his grandfather aged seven, when he was given his very first camera; a Kodak Instamatic Pocket 200. Curious by nature, Alex has taken pictures ever since.

Having studied photography, printing and the history of art at art school and holding a degree from the Humanities Department at King's College London, Alex loves the diversity traditional non-digital photography offers the artist. Over the past five years Alex has also partially moved to the world of digital photography. Being a purist, Alex only uses available natural light and digital techniques, such as print toning, that can also be applied within traditional photography and printing.

Alex’s first commercial success came in 2003, when several pictures documenting England’s recession torn North were bought by a range of private European collectors. Since then, Alex has continuously expanded his portfolio to include a variety of contemporary commissions featuring landscapes, inanimate objects, abstracts, urban portraits and street photography.