Alex Prager

on (women) photographers

interview by MAURIZIO CATTELAN and MARTA PAPINI
portrait by BELLA HOWARD

Alex Prager

 

MAURIZIO CATTELAN — Do you mind being called a photographer?
ALEX PRAGER — I used to mind. I don’t do straight photography, so I felt it was a misrepresentation of what I was doing. But over the past year or so, I’ve let go of that and decided people can call me whatever they want. The idea of what constitutes photography is constantly changing and evolving. Whatever people see in my work — and what they relate it to — well, that’s what it is for them. When I’m making my films, people say I’m a filmmaker. When I’m making still images, people say I’m a photographer. They are all essentially interchangeable to me now.

MAURIZIO CATTELAN — Do you remember your first picture?
ALEX PRAGER — I…