About

Alex Sinclair grew up in the local Dublin/Wicklow punk scene where he learned a DIY-ethos which he has retained to this day. He graduated with a B.A. in Photography from Dublin Institute of Technology, specialising his final year in fictional narrative construction in news media while writing his thesis on Stephen Shore’s seminal photobook American Surfaces. During college, he started DigitalFaun, an award-winning image-media criticism blog that amassed 27,000 subscribers before wrapping up in 2015. Working briefly as a sportswriter, Sinclair had his work featured by Sports Illustrated, Pro Football Focus, SB Nation, and Daily Sports Car. In his spare time, Sinclair alternates between learning Japanese and playing chess. The difficulty of both hobbies drive him insane.

Timeline

2005

Joined BASTA! Youth Collective
Self-published Little Thoughts (24-pages, black-and-white zine)

2006

Graduated from Presentation College Bray
Self-published Bonfire Hopskotch (32 pages, black-and-white zine)
Designed BASTA! Youth Collective posters (April, May, June, July)

2007

Graduated from Bray Institute Of Further Education
Founded The Sambo Project (non-profit collective with co-founder David Clune)

2009

Founded DigitalFaun (photo criticism and media analysis blog that amassed 27,000 subscribers)
Founded Neck Deep Records (independent record label with Graham Butler and James Carpenter)
Joined Exchange Dublin as archivist
Photos published by Oh Francis Magazine
Exhibited in Hard Working Class Heroes festival

2010

Self-published I Said It Was Simple Not Easy (32 pages, black-and-white zine)
Shot the cover for We’ve Been Talking by Enemies (Richter Collective - EU, Stiff Slack Records - Asia)
Photo published by Blood Of The Young zine

2011

Self-published Katie (20 pages, colour zine)
Self-published The Bayou Quiet (32 sheets, collected postcards)

2012

Awarded first prize in Student Media Awards - Blog Of The Year category
Article published by Sports Illustrated about NFL Films’ late chairperson Steve Sabol
Self-published One New Message (120 pages, colour softcover photobook)
Curated The Lacuna Project (group show)

2013

Graduated from Dublin Institute of Technology (B.A. Photography)
Self-published Srianta (98 pages, black-and-white hardcover photobook)
Srianta purchased by PhotoIreland for permanent Irish collection
United States v. Bradley Manning shown at The National Photo Archive
Joined Motorsport Ireland as temporary licence administrator
Founded The819 (NFL podcast with Joe Roche)
Self-published Peter Pan magazine (108 pages, colour magazine)

2014

Joined Pro Football Focus as an independent contractor for American football statistics and journalist
Article published by Papersafe magazine

2015

Joined SBNation as a statistics analyst and journalist
Article titled The Big Four published by A24 Pictures to promote their upcoming film The End Of The Tour

2016

Joined Wicklow Trade Union Centre as newsletter editor and CV consultant
Founded World Endurance Championship Fan Survey (external motorsport market research and consultancy)

2017

Joined Motorsport Ireland as licence administrator, regulations editor, Young Driver Awards coordinator

2018

Passed Japanese Language Proficiency Test N5
Self-published Awkward Phaze (84 pages, black-and-white hardcover photobook)

2019

Competitor in 17th Annual IJA Japanese Speech Competition
Passed Japanese Language Proficiency Test N4
Writing published in From Where The Heart Is (softcover photobook with Bryan Hogan, Aila Harryson Lorgan, Sierra Grace, Edel Brady)
Worked for University College Dublin’s Applied Language Centre

2020

Awarded first prize in IJA Photo Competition
Self-published Wide Awake In Imazato (170 pages, black-and-white softcover photobook)
Good Friends Bad Habits featured on Nialler9

2021

Began Showa35mm - vintage Japanese photograph restoration project

2022

Self-published Learning The Trade (20 pages, essay zine)
Self-published Where The Water Meets The World (28 pages, black-and-white photozine with poems)

2023

Self-published Searching For A Former Clarity (124 pages, black-and-white softcover photobook)
Showa35mm featured in French magazine TEMPURA