Febuary 17-23, 2018
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Artist Issue No.32
Bienvenido Bienvenido invites you to a graphic display of artists in our community. We are devoted to showcase artists within our nature of interests as humans. In this issue we are covering a young upcoming artist named Alex Currie who at only 20 has a phenomenal eye at photography, and is making headlines.
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lex Currie at just 19 years old, is where many mid-career photographers would love to be. Those photos that HBO asked for? They were from a wedding he shot in Iceland when he was 18. “It’s cool to flip through the channels and go, ‘Hey, there’s my stuff’,” said Currie, a sophomore at USC. Last year, he shot an album cover for NF, a band signed by Capitol Records. He’s currently working with some mainstream musicians, but he can’t talk about the work just yet. Currie first got behind the camera as a film producer, getting a Flip camera from his parents when he was about 10 years old. “I never really put the camera back down,” said Currie, who grew up in upstate New York. “I started taking pictures because I couldn’t make a video every day after school.” First gigs he got his first gigs in high school, offering to do web and photography work for musicians he liked. “I just started reaching out to people,” he said. “I was a music fanatic. I wanted to get involved out of pure boredom.” When he was 15, he started doing marketing for a contemporary Christian band called Tenth Avenue North. That led him to being their tour photographer during his senior year, flying around the country and to Canada on weekends. When he was 17, he was featured in Flickr’s 20under20 show as a top young talent, and his work was featured in a gallery show curated by Vogue Photo Director Ivan Shaw. Cinematic influence, last spring he joined the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where he’s studying film production, and his work has since taken on a more cinematic quality, he said. “I think subconsciously in my work — a lot of what I do has a beginning, middle and an end,” he said. -By Joana Clay
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n June, he and his friends packed up their cars and drove up to Portland. Along the way, he pulled over to shoot them for series of photos called The Other Side of the Rainbow, which showcased the natural splendor of the Pacific Northwest and the intimate stories he can tell through his friends. “It was essentially the story of two lost kids looking for a rainbow,” he said. “As we progressed into Oregon, it gets more dramatic and they jump through a waterfall and are on the beach with this rainbow.” Right now, he’s hunkered down three to four hours a day, challenging himself to shoot every day of 2017. “I just don’t sleep,” he joked. - By Joana clay
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t’s hard to be creative and to make really creative work in school,” Currie said. “You’re kind of just surrounded by all likeminded people, you’re in a bubble and everything you’re being taught is really theoretical.” In other instances, the concrete constraints of USC’s campus present a different kind of creative roadblock. Accordingly, Currie feels he is more inspired away from campus, in nature or in Los Angeles. It’s there that he can separate the two environments. Separation is a theme that looms large for a student-professional like Currie. In fact, the term “student-professional” itself might not even be entirely fitting; the two worlds are often so removed that, as Currie said, the moniker of “person” could provide a much more practical, and much less fragmented, conception of self. In any case, the lifestyle of a college student and that of a professional, though instinctivel contradictory, have created a useful dynamic for Currie. When asked if he has ever “double-dipped,” that is, used outside projects for school, he had a quick reply: “Freshman year, I had a video project due and I just submitted a slideshow of pictures instead. I was like, ‘Here! Here’s this.” -By Natasha Pinon
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