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Connecting Portraits of Lonely Souls with @deltalex

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“#Hellomynameis Alex Benetel (@deltalex) and I’m a 21-year-old student and photographer from Sydney, Australia. My earliest memory of photography was when I was 11 years old. My parents gave my brother and me each a disposable camera to use on a trip to Europe. I only had 30 frames and didn’t want to waste them, so I remember really thinking about the composition of each photograph. But it wasn’t until I was 15 that photography really grew into a passion of mine. After taking a visual design course in high school, I was introduced to pinhole photography. I was overcome with inspiration and immediately started experimenting with self-portraiture.

“Someone recently described my photography as exploring the stories of ‘lonely souls.’ I was intrigued by this analysis because, for me, photography is a form of self-expression. I see a lot of longing in my work. As both a young artist and a person, I’m still trying to find my way in the photography world and, ultimately, in my life. Like everyone else, I have big dreams that I hope to achieve one day.”