Alex Boyd (photographer)

Alex Boyd
Born	1984 Celle, Germany
Nationality	Scottish
Occupation	Photographer
Website	http://www.alexboyd.co.uk/

Alexander Boyd FRSA (born 15 July 1984 in Celle, Germany is a Scottish artist and photographer whose work has been exhibited and published internationally.

Boyd holds an MA (Hons) in History of Art from the University of Glasgow in 2007, where he specialised in 20th Century German Art; and an MSc in Archival and Museum Studies from the Humanities and Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) from the same institution in 2009.

Alex Boyd is a British artist best known for his conceptual and figurative landscape photography which explores concepts of Scottish identity through historical and contemporary romanticism, neo-romanticism, Romantic nationalism and Spirit of Place. His work is largely concerned with depictions of the Celtic landscape, conservation and remote places, and is often characterised by its stark, poetic and introspective qualities.

This is perhaps most apparent in his series Sonnets. Based on the Rückenfigur (literally "back figure") paintings of German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich and the Besetzungen (occupations) series of images by Anselm Kiefer, Sonnets sought to critique sentimental and kitsch depictions of the Scottish landscape. The series attempts to explore issues of Scottish national identity and its depiction in Scottish art, through depicting controversial historical locations such as Gruinard Island (a site of biological warfare testing) and Glencoe where the Massacre of Glencoe took place.

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