STORY
Alexander Prior is a Vancouver-based photographer specializing in portrait, fashion, street, lifestyle, and commercial photography, as well as limited edition fine art photographic prints. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Alexander has been creating images professionally for over two years, with a distinctive approach built around one principle: capturing the unseen and telling the untold.
His work spans editorial fashion shoots, intimate portrait sessions, urban street photography across Vancouver and internationally, lifestyle photography, and commercial projects for brands and businesses. Limited edition fine art prints are available mounted on Alupanel in multiple sizes, each accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Alexander Prior Photography is available for sessions in Vancouver, the Lower Mainland, and beyond. To book a session or inquire about prints, contact info@alexanderprior.com or use the booking form at alexanderprior.com/contact.
What's your story? I'm here to capture the version of it you haven't seen yet.
Capturing the Unseen, Telling the Untold
I've always seen things other people walk past.
Not because I'm looking harder, because I'm looking differently. I'm drawn to what's beneath the surface of a moment: the tension in a glance before it resolves, the way light hits a street corner at the exact second it means something, the version of a person that only appears when they forget the camera is there.
That's what I'm after. Not the posed. Not the obvious. The real thing underneath.
Based in Vancouver, I work across street, fashion, portrait, lifestyle, and commercial photography, and the through-line across all of it is the same: I capture what most people don't see until after I show it to them. The image that makes someone say "that's exactly it," even if they couldn't have described what "it" was before the shutter clicked.
My background isn't just photographic. I bring a UI designer's eye to every frame, obsessive about composition, light, negative space, and the way beauty and function work together. Every image I make is intentional. Nothing is accidental.
When I'm behind the camera with you, I'm not directing a performance. I'm creating the conditions for something true to emerge, and then I'm ready when it does.
