Alex Jackson-Smith

About Alex Jackson-Smith

I have been a photographer for over 30 years. I started with my father’s 35mm Mamiya SLR with manual lenses.

I photograph people, places, street photography, landscape, objects, animals; in fact anything. You will see a noticeable limit on portraits and private photographs of people, this is because I do these photographs only for the people themselves, and not for publication.

As a young boy I was acutely aware that some people would be happy to kill me.

My father was a soldier and around the time I was 5 or 6 I first became aware that some Irish catholics wanted to kill and bomb anyone or anything related to the British Army. I was in the midst of this. From this time on, being aware of my surroundings was critical for survival, be it mine, my families, our friends and other people that could just be nearby.

It is this childhood that makes me observant and it has spilt over to my photography.

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