Hi! I am Alejandro “Alex” Lourido
The first time I held a camera I was only 3 or 4. My grandfather loved all things film and had a library sized movie collection. My grandparents encouraged me to explore my fascination with their camera, as well as the piano in the living room. “Film is cheap” my grandfather would tell my grandma, always making sure there was real film in the camera I would play with. I vividly remember practicing composition and framing a shot of their fireplace in the view finder, and falling in love with the feeling of capturing an image that had symmetry long before I knew what that was.
As I grew, I followed my passion for music and chased after the piano in the living room, leaving the camera a memory in the background. I never gave photography a thought outside of a class I took my freshman year in high school. Back then I was more interested in flirting with blonde girls in Mr. Arscott’s dark room than I was the actual photography.
Throughout college I was the go-to-guy for capturing the group pictures and I was the guy that always caught the drama from the night before on camera. My father, a Broadcasting Consultant and Director of Communication for a fortune 500 company, always was a master at editing and capturing video in many different mediums. The principals that were mastered by him, he passed down to me, and even when he wasn’t teaching, I was still learning by proximity, a sort of educational osmosis occurs unbeknownst to us. Its human nature. That is why who we surround ourself with, we become.
I see shots, I frame them with my mind, then when I pull out an iphone, I cannot capture the image I see in my head. This frustration had plagued me for half a decade. September of 2021, while recovering from a surgery, I decided enough was enough. I bought a FujiFilm X-T30, with a 35mm f1.4 lens and within one day of shooting, I knew I had solved my problem. My first time in 12 years picking up a camera and I shot what you see now.
These photos are just a collection of moments I have captured, they are frozen in time, like a museum of memories.
Living in Baltimore helps. Any city with character and history has limitless potential.
Thanks for checking out my work. Never stop creating, capturing and telling stories.
God bless.