Alan is an emerging photography-based artist from Vancouver. His interest in photography started from a passion for travel and a love of nature. With an educational and career background in geotechnical mining engineering, he saw firsthand humanity’s awesome and awful impact on the natural landscape. After a recent career change to become a letter carrier, his job allows him to soak in diverse areas of the city by foot and provides inspiration for works based on urban landscapes and environments.

His aesthetic has been influenced by landscape photographers like Edward Burtynsky as well as the documentative, direct style of the New Objectivity movement. He enjoys exploring the relationship between society and the environment, both built and natural, and the story it tells about ourselves.

While primarily self-taught in photography, Alan has taken several courses under Langara’s Continuing Studies Photography Program and is exploring other photographic genres. He recently has been playing with photocomposites to impart an extra layer into his works.