London Photography Award Nomination Alex Bamford: '"Oddness" shows a fortuitous light leak adding to the already strange colours .. This is a fantastic set; conceptual, imaginative and genuinely beautiful.'

The Guardian:“This portfolio is full of quite extraordinary images. The otherworldly photo 'Down the concrete hill to Bedfordshire' is just this side of surreal, imbued with non-specific meaning; it certainly stimulates the imagination... 'Sleepwalking' is even better; the two shot process really creating exceptional light. 'Oddness' shows a fortuitous light leak adding to the already strange colours; the incredible rendering of the sea in 'Pier struts' is down to a 20min exposure by the full moon. 'Straight from the breeze-block' is another moonlit photo, beautifully composed and with that strange tonality again. This is a fantastic set; conceptual, imaginative and genuinely beautiful.”

Originally a student of Graphic Design, Alex Bamford moved from Cornwall to the big smoke to seek his fortune as Art Director at an advertising agency. Alex then started to put all he had learnt into brilliant photographic use. His eerily magical photos fall under the heading Moonlighting; the distinctive snapper only likes to come out in the solitude of night-time. Not only that, his exposures must take place 3-4 days either side of a full moon, lasting from between three and ten minutes, often in extremely cold temperatures. He recently exhibited in the Brighton Photo Fringe as part of the Bright Nights installation, and before that showed at Haymarket’s Contemporary Photography in London.