I haven't ever felt the need to comment on my work until now. I just want to say one thing to everyone who ever gazes through any of these submissions. If you do not see utter beauty and if it does not bring you joy to appreciate the reality I have tried to capture in these photos, then I ask you to search again or else disregard them. The majority of my work is dark and has high contrast, but I hope this is never perceived as a sense of sinister existentialism or hopelessness. I believe in mystery and that it tends to be hidden in irony - in the broad daylight but rarely recognized. Most all of these photos are my way of revealing the abundance of mystery which surrounds me in my daily life. Indeed the most beautiful things in life are mysteries and photographing them is my best way of praising their ineffable origin.

- Alexi