Bio
Alfi Moss-White (b. 2000) is an artist born, raised, and based in South London.
Driven by a lifelong fascination with the human condition, Alfi's work focuses on the places of unity and division found within it. They are interested in what it means to be human, as well as what it means not to be: life as well as death, the rise of the chest as much as its fall. Their work is rooted in the documentary tradition and is guided greatly by the practice of personal documentation. Recurring themes in Alfi's work include race, disability, gender, and sexuality; conflict and intimacy, (non)duality, transition, and change. Alfi is interested in the fringe of society, those who occupy it and the perspective of society from it. Alfi's practice is an investigation; their photographs are their findings.
Outside of making photographs, Alfi is interested in the place of photography in modern society, and what the photograph now means in this current age of imagery, surveillance, censorship, and representation. It is this line of thought, influenced by their long standing position of 'people first, photographs second', that guides their talks, workshops, and overall ethos.
They are currently studying a BA in English Literature and Language at The Open University, and are working on their first photobook, which is to be published in 2025/2026.
Artist Statement
As I enter the tenth decade of my practice, I am interested in the photograph as an artefact: something found rather than created. Photography distorts, spins, weaves—I’m interested in these effects, in how the world can be presented back to us in photographs as something different to what we thought it to be. I believe there is a great subversive effect in this, in showing that things are not all that they seem, and nor do they have to be.
I think this world is strange, that around us are forces yet stranger. The camera has gone from a naive interest of my adolescence to a tool that has allowed me to see this strangeness and, better yet, capture it. It is in this endeavour, with ever the political and social values which form my practice, that I make photographs.
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