Alex Avgud is a Russian-born photography artist based in The Netherlands since 2015.

His autonomous visual works explore degrees of autonomy of a human body in shifting political contexts and address such issues as migration, relativity of freedom and queer sexuality through merging photography with choreographed performances. For commissioned work, he embarks on fashion & theatre assignments.

In 2019 Alex has graduated from KABK with a BA degree in Photography, winning Photo Talent Award during ‘Best of Graduates’ exhibition in Amsterdam at Galerie Ron Mandos. Alex has exhibited, amongst other venues, at Les Rencontres d’Arles in France with FOAM Photography Museum, at Unseen Photo Fair (Amsterdam), EYE Film Museum (Amsterdam), at 37th Hyéres Festival of Fashion and Photography (France), with Atla Platform in Copenhagen (Denmark), and at Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo (Norway).

Alex is a Laureate of Dior Photography Award 2020, and was shortlisted for Dummy Book Award (Cologne, Germany) & OD Photo Prize (London, UK). His works have been published in numerous online & offline outlets, and are a part of private and corporate collections.

As an educator & mentor he’s been involved in programmes encouraging young talent in Denmark (Copenhagen Photo Festival) & Russia (a creative laboratory for teenagers of underprivileged backgrounds in a small mining town).