Alex Kilbee is a professional portrait photographer with more than thirty years of experience. He studied photography at photo school in the early nineties, when digital photography was only just beginning, and today runs his own family portrait studio. In the studio he focuses on children and builds rapport with them before he even picks up the camera, so the pictures are not the usual say cheese shots.
He is the creator of the YouTube channel The Photographic Eye, which he started after years of thinking about it. Its motto is not gear, just ideas. In his videos he talks about composition and the so called rules of photography, the history of the medium, great photographers and photo books, and how to look at pictures, rather than about new cameras. He believes that experience and looking at a lot of photographs matter more than technical knowledge.
He often encourages viewers to study monographs and books such as Magnum Contact Sheets to understand how photographers really work, and he gives practical advice on taking better pictures of your own children. The biggest thing, he says, is to stop worrying so much.
