Alexandra Blum is a creative from New York City. She is told it was a task and a treasure to walk her to preschool. She was, and is, transfixed by every window display and farmers market vendor en route: a quality she would come to know as wonder. At thirteen, Alexandra made a business of sewing raincoats, and went on to grow her visual affinity, shooting personal and commissioned fashion work with her friends as youthful subjects. She has eight plus years of experience in photography, creative direction, writing, and styling. 

Studying Art History at Stanford University, she continued to cultivate her voice and eye for art writing and curation. Simultaneously, she engaged with craft herself, developing skills in manual processes of darkroom printing and graphic design. She worked at the iconic century old movie house, the Stanford Theatre, during her college years, where she poured Coca Cola and handled film archives. 

Alexandra has worked as a production assistant for Annie Leibovitz, and an archivist at Mexico City’s kurimanzutto gallery. She conducted research for “Artists Against the Bomb,” sculptor Pedro Reyes’ book and exhibition of artist work against Nuclear War, which premiered at the UN in 2023. She also compiled research on design history for Basic.Space’s social media platforms, and worked in person commerce for the design focused marketplace. Her photographs have been featured in i-D magazine. 

In her everyday life, Alexandra pursues poet Elizabeth Bishop’s question “Why do we all feel this sweet Sensation of Joy?” She documents ironies, like video games being played in front of a Rembrandt painting, a broken Spiderman figurine atop delicate plates at the flea, or a Mister Softee swirl dripping over a “Love you” tattoo. Her references can be found below here: