Alexander Williamson

Academic, writer, photographer, researcher and visual documentarian based in the Scottish Highlands and working across the UK.

I specialise in collaborating with commercial, public and third sector organisations, helping them to tell compelling stories about the UK’s people, places and landscapes.

Commercial Work

As a freelance communications professional, web designer and content creator, I partner with individuals, businesses and organisations to provide high quality content to support their marketing and communications needs.

As a freelance commercial photographer, I cover event, publicity and portrait photography and project documentation.

As a freelance researcher and ethnographer, I use field-based photography and interview techniques to capture qualitative data to support impact reporting needs.

Creative Practice

My personal creative photography projects engage with the documentary and travel vernacular, alternating between digital and analogue approaches to document the ephemeral, strange and unnoticed spaces of the contemporary.

My poems have appeared in Aesthetica, Aspidistra, Dream Catcher, Magma, Orbis and South Bank Poetry. My longform prose has been published by Hinterland, MIR Online and Acid Bath Publishing. Laughing Stock, an autofictional memoir, is my first book.

Academia

I have a BA (Hons) in Politics from the University of Sheffield, an MA in Modern and Contemporary Literature from Birkbeck, University of London, and a PhD in English from Birkbeck, where the focus of my thesis was dialogic intertextuality and unconscious collaboration in the novels of Siri Hustvedt and Paul Auster.

More recently I was awarded a scholarship by the Centre for Living Sustainability at the University of the Highlands and Islands to undertake a MRes exploring the emotional and psychogeographic impact of climate change on communities connected to the Scottish skiing industry.

Affiliations

I am a member of Visual Arts Scotland, Scotland Contemporary Arts Network, former chair of Nairn Book and Arts Festival and former marketing and communications manager for Findhorn Bay Arts.

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