ALEX SILBERSTEIN specialises in portraits and figure studies of both men and women. He presently works as an art director and freelance graphic designer for a variety of international companies.

Alex Silberstein (b. 1958) was primarely trained as a painter and graphic artist (oils, gouache, watercolor, woodcuts, aquatints, etchings). He abhors a "personal style" that is merely based on simple tricks that are repeated ad infinitum, a characteristic of most mediocre artists and amateurs. Alex prefers images that are each unique in style and atmosphere. "Repetitions are good for machines and robots", he says, "but creative people should continuously borrow and steal - to quote Picasso - from others to develop new ideas."

Not all pictures can be great works of art, experiments like photomontages and photocollages - popular since the Dada and Surrealist Movement in the 1930's - sometimes result in kitsch, sometimes even in outright pastiches, or works that are not worth contemplating for more than two seconds. In short: the hallmarks of the traditional fine arts are not alien to photography.

UNTIL AUGUST 15TH, 2008, I'M FULLY BOOKED.

Email: alexsilberstein@gmail.com