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Alexander Iglesias is a photographic artist who is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts degree at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. Alexander's work focuses on intimacy and their understanding of the world. They were accepted into Atelier Smedsby, run by photographers JH Engstrom and Margot Wallard, and has been recognized as a noteworthy emerging artist in multiple exhibitions, such as the Texas Photo Society's New Visions 2022 and 2023 exhibitions, the Rhode Island Center for Photography 9th International Exhibition, and inclusion in the 39th edition of the American Photography Archive.

Alexander grew up outside of Chattanooga, Tennessee and is one of a handful of people from their high school graduating class to go to college. They got their first camera at 16, when they started taking pictures of their friends and the situation they found themselves in which is how the project I Love/Hate It Here was conceived. Due to the encouragement of their high school photography professor and the fear when friends started passing away from the opioid epidemic and mental health crisis, they left Chattanooga, Tennessee to study photography at RIT.

“My home has a hold on me, it intertwined with who I am and chained me to it if not physically at least mentally. It has constricted and constructed my identity and I’m only beginning to free myself from it. My friends that are alive are not so lucky, I’m one of the few to have escaped its grasp which is something I’ll forever be guilty of. Many of them don’t seem too concerned about it and I guess that’s good for them, but I know it wasn’t good for me.”