Even as a kid, I had a reputation. As soon as I was put in the school system I was branded a dumbass and placed in a special room with two or three other students. I was a nuisance to authority. I spent a lot of time eating lunch in the principal's office. I wanted to be outside. Words & photography extract from my "Bad Reputation" article Published in Desillusion Volume 2.
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Buy Prints Online!
I've been flying high as hell traveling, shooting, writing, and meeting a lot of new people with real deal stories. In order to land back on the ground safely I've put together an online shop where you can swipe a credit card and buy prints! I'm hoping this will be a good foundation so I can continue to do what I love.
Head over to my shop to see what's good. These are all limited edition, signed, numbered, and professionally printed C-prints, starting at $100, $225, & $425, depending on size.
Free international shipping on all prints for the next week. Just use the coupon code "WANG".
Go pre-order the new DESILLUSION magazine. I’m going have some photos and writing published in the next PURSUIT OF FLOW issue. DSL Mag is a skate culture magazine, curated by an artist himself. So there should be lots of boobs, surfing, black and white film, and fashion inside.
I wouldn’t tell you to spend 18 bucks on this if the magazine was shit, and I wasn’t proud of myself.
Check out my photos in the Later Mag vs Logan Landry interview!
Check out my portfolio and brand new bio on the front page of The Inertia website.
For the past two months I’ve been exploring Mexico’s coastline, surfing and shooting every day. I hope you guys are stoked to see some new colour work in the near future!
On The Road. Ecuador. 2010.
Traveling on a quite bus can be quite meditative. Hours on end not talking to anyone just sitting and observing the landscape changing from mountains to ocean to banana plantations to desert. A very slow transition. Traveling from one well off town to a next you realize how fortunate your are as you pass through one shanty town to the next. A fast visual transition and a saddening one.
From the series “These New Poutines”
Hostal de Ricky. Montañita, Ecuador. 2010.
We where dragging our bags and boards across town to find this hotel that our buddy Ricky Lobo owned and somehow crossed paths with him as he was pulling out for a ten hour drive for an incoming storm. He recommended we not stay at his hostal but to keep moving north. Just arriving from Peru we couldn’t do another consecutive day on a bus so we used our judgment to stay and ended up scoring perfect nine foot waves with thousands of harmless jellyfish.
From the series “These New Poutines”
Check out these words by Malcolm Johnson on SBC Surf about my work.
"Alex Guiry is a travel and lifestyle photographer who’s been studying at Emily Carr in Vancouver for the last few years while traveling to distant surf destinations on the side. "My work is based around the lifestyle of surfing," he says, "as well as the byproducts of traveling with a surfboard. I play on the harsh realities and the enlightening ones—in a way, I like to think I’m an artist-as-ethnographer."
Alex is headed off to Mexico and Central America next month, so we’re looking forward to seeing more of his work here at SBC. There’s currently an exhibition of his work up at the Sitka store in Victoria, and you can see a ton more from him at his website here or his Facebook page here”