joerg alexander – generative photography

What if seeing is already artificial?

An aesthetic that exists somewhere between Hades and haute couture.

Claude – „It’s about perception.“

essays / studies / works

„This is an evolving library of visual and conceptual works exploring artificiality, perception, and digital identity.”

Pursuit of Happiness

Pursuit of Happiness constructs a radically stylized visual world — between mirrors and skulls, longing and surface. An aesthetic that exists somewhere between Hades and haute couture. The protagonists are icons of illusion. Staged bodies enclosed in vitrines of darkness and sheen. What they think remains their own. What they feel is reflected in light, in surfaces, in metallic skulls — never spoken. Merely suggested.

Les Protégés – Fragments of Hope and Despair

“They do not know their roles – yet the world does.” Each figure carries a name, but the name is not protection — it is expectation. The women are archetypes — Lady Macbeth, Desdemona, Ophelia, Viola, Beatrice — and yet they are counter-images of themselves. They speak — but often without a voice.

Les Protégés – Fractures without Origin

“Not all drama bleeds. Some stays quiet. And waits.” The names disappear, the quotes fall silent. What remains is the everyday – kitchens, animals, patches of light on skin. The drama hasn’t vanished, it has seeped into the banal. They are silent carriers of a tension that does not explode, but endures. They show that there is a role even without a costume – and that many do not find themselves in dramas, but in routines they were never written out of.

Les Protégés – An American Fable

These solitary figures and pivotal scenes reinterpret Shakespeare’s dramas, exploring the boundary between reality and imagination. Each image captures moments charged with tension, where hope meets despair and strength confronts vulnerability.

Lolita

She is not the story. She is the screen. A nation looks at her and sees itself: young, pure, untouchable. But behind the eyes— a history undone, a guilt renamed, a hunger never questioned.

Marisol

The Invisible Space That Shapes Us - This essay reflects on how we navigate between these invisible spaces: the hope for what is to come and the melancholy of what has been lost. The various figures are not mere representations of ideas — they are mirrors of our inner experiences. One question remains: How does the invisible—the things we hope for and the things we have lost—shape our being?

Raven

'Raven' continues the ideas introduced in 'Marisol'. The images depict a half-lit, seemingly abandoned house where a single figure sits with a raven, echoing the cryptic whisper “Nevermore.” This setting invites a closer look at how memory and uncertainty intertwine, suggesting a quiet shift from the warmth of the past to the unsettled shadows of the present.

No Man’s Journey

What if no one is watching? What if no one remembers the attempt? When a journey has no witness, and no arrival - is it still a journey, or just a disappearance?

In the Void

Sometimes, everything begins with light: cold, focused, unrelenting. In that moment—between sedation and awareness—there is a strange clarity. The medical world does not appear here as a backdrop, but as a language of its own: sterile, but never empty; distant, yet saturated with human proximity. A system of machines, hands, and glances—where every detail matters, and every silence speaks.

Precarious Self

The self appears as a provisional structure – shaped by encounters, overlaps, chance. Never finished, always re-balanced. In its very fragility lies the power to reinvent. Every tiny shift in this precarious balance cracks open new rooms of possibility within us.