Alex prager photography biography

American photographer and filmmaker

Alex Prager (born 1979)^[1] is an American artist, director, and screenwriter based in Los Angeles.^[2][3]

Prager is known for her uncanny and highly staged images and films that blur the line between artifice and reality.^[4][5]

Early life

Prager was born in Los Feliz, Los Angeles.

Alex prager photography style

At age fourteen, she dropped out of school and traveled to Switzerland on her own, where she worked at a knife store in Lucerne. She returned to Switzerland frequently for longer periods of time and earned her G.E.D at sixteen.^[6]

When she was twenty-one and living in Los Angeles, Prager was inspired to pursue photography after seeing an exhibition of William Eggleston’s photographs at the Getty Museum.

She cites this as a formative experience: “I felt like I was struck blind by a vision and that was the path I was going to take for the rest of my life.” A self-taught artist, Prager