Alexander Kesselaar was born 1977 in Bremen, Germany to a dutch father and german mother. Through his families involvement in German Television, he was always fascinated by all forms of media and its creation.
After finishing High School he worked in TV Production for several years and in 2000 he decided to move to Australia to study at the prestigious Academy of Photogenic Arts in Sydney, where he specialised in Editing and Production Management. As part of the course Alex was also introduced to photography. After successfully completing the degree at the Academy he founded his own production company and produced various Commercials, Music Video, Short and Feature Films.
Throughout this whole time Alex always came back to photography as his preferred medium for creative self-expression. Eventually he turned his back on the film-industry to further his photographic skills. Alex was immersing himself in a wide range of different photographic styles and subjects. These days Alex is happily married living in Sydney with two kids and goes by the name of alexkess. He is now a well known published working photographer and avid photoblogger.
As well as loving the craftsmanship and nostalgia of old fashioned Film-Photography, Alex has always embraced new technology. So when he got his first iPhone, he soon started using it for his photography and he created his iPhone365 Project, where he is posting a new iphone photo every day for 1 year. All Photos on this blog are taken, edited and posted, with an iPhone and the help of some fantastic applications that are available in the app store.
"I love my SLR Camera, but it is bulky, obtrusive and very obvious when you use it. I constantly carry my iPhone with me. People don’t really notice and/or care when you take photos, because you really just look like a geek, not like a professional photographer. I take photos with anything that has the ability to capture light and one of those things happens to be my iPhone. I always try to look at everything as if I am seeing it for the first time, just like a tourist in my own town. I believe that there is beauty everywhere we look."
