Alex Prager (b. 1979, Los Angeles) is a self-taught photographer whose style is heavily influenced by film, particularly melodramas of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and directors such as Douglas Sirk and ...

Six months ago, when documentary filmmaker Iara Lee wandered through a squalid refugee camp in northwest Pakistan where 60,000 Afghans live in tents and mud huts, she witnessed a migrational travesty ...

“Despair,” a short film produced by bi-coastal digital effects house Look Effects in collaboration with California photographer Alex Prager, is being included in New York’s Museum of Modern Art 2010 ...

A father tying his daughter’s shoes in the rain becomes a near Sisyphean labour. A priest consults a psychiatrist about his loss of faith. Two high schoolers read the first law of thermodynamics from ...

I Only Want You to Love Me, 1976 is his first television venture. It’s also said to be his most autobiographical film, and certainly his most Freudian. It tells the story of a naïve young man, Peter ...

Forget for a minute the Hugh Jackman of Broadway musicals and Les Miserables and X-Men movies, and envision the Australian actor as a Pennsylvania survivalist and desperate father who takes justice ...

A Los Angeles native, Alex Prager is heavily influenced by the beauty, promise, and ultimate monotony of the city. An air of artificiality pervades her images, which she achieves through careful ...