about me

I began my study of photography as a high school student in the 1990s, and spent years hoping and planning to build a darkroom in my house. Eventually I made the switch to a digital SLR, and I have learned to accept my computer and editing software as the next best thing to the darkroom I always wished for. Although I’m now making photographs in the absence of chemicals, and without having to worry about running out of film, I use the newest digital editing technology minimally. I want to make pictures in the way that my predecessors have been since the beginning, of real events that took place.

I take pictures of people and places in their natural state: imperfect expressions, floor still-a-mess. I take pictures of real life, as it happens.

I live in Greenfield, MA, with my seven children.

You can reach me at LEX@LEXBEACH.COM.