Alon Koppel returned to photography, his main passion, focus of creativity and a source of income, following a career in design.
Alon’s experience as a graphic designer enables him to bring a more rigorous methodology and project-based approach to photography than he previously could and, paradoxically with that, more freedom to explore.
Alon’s work runs the gamut from a rephotography project of historical stereoscopic images to making long exposure photographs of various modes of transportation.
His photography practice centers on key aspects of conceptual landscape photography, emphasizing location, time, and repetition. Grounded in the exploration of the sublime, the work documents the evolving landscape through meticulous depictions of man-made structures and vessels. It delves into the signs of industrialization, climate change, and the natural progression of seasons.
His Shipping Lane project was selected for an exhibition at Klompching Gallery in New York City as part of FRESH 2023. In 2024 Alon was an artist-in-residence with the Erie Canal, working on a year-long, rephotography documentation project with the resulting works acquired by the Erie Canal Museum for their collection.
In early 2025 he spent a month in residency at Tusen Takk Foundation, creating long exposure photographs of Lake Michigan as well as the effects of avian influenza on the local bird population.
Alon currently resides in Catskill, New York. He is represented by Susan Spiritus Gallery based in Irvine, CA.
