Hogan Alexander Seidel
Nature in Flux
Hogan Alexander Seidel is a contemporary photographer and filmmaker whose work explores the unstable boundaries between nature, identity, and transformation. Working primarily through analog photographic and moving-image processes, Seidel combines botanical imagery, photochemical experimentation, and found organic materials to create works that question fixed categories and conventional ideas of value.
Their photographs often begin with plants and other elements of the natural world, but become transformed through cyanotype, botanical collage, experimental film development, and other alternative processes. The resulting images occupy a space between document and abstraction, using ecological cycles of growth, decay, resistance, and renewal as ways of thinking about identity, erasure, and the possibility of transformation.
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About the Work
Seidel’s Glimpses of Their Garden series considers the life of plants often dismissed as weeds. The images reflect on growth, decay, and resilience while using the persistence of unwanted plants as a metaphor for forms of life and identity that resist erasure. The garden becomes both a physical environment and a space for considering ecological and personal transformation.
Process is inseparable from these ideas. Seidel develops black-and-white film using a plant-based developer made from composted garden weeds, then experiments with cyanotype, contact printing, and other alternative photographic techniques. In this approach, discarded organic material becomes part of the image-making process itself, creating a direct relationship between subject, material, and meaning.
The resulting photographs move between botanical observation and abstraction. Familiar plant forms are fragmented, transformed, or reduced to light, shadow, shape, and color, encouraging viewers to consider what happens when established distinctions between natural and artificial, document and artwork, or fixed identity and transformation begin to dissolve.
Biography
Hogan Alexander Seidel is an American filmmaker and photographer born in 1991 and based in Boston. Their practice spans experimental moving image and analog photography, including Super 8, 16mm, 35mm, and 70mm film. Seidel holds a BFA and MFA in Media Art from Emerson College and an M.Ed. in Arts Education from Harvard University, and is currently an Assistant Teaching Professor of Photography at Simmons University.
Seidel’s films and photographs have been presented internationally at festivals including Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Analogica, Istanbul Experimental, Onion City, and Athens International Film + Video Festival. Their work has received support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, United States Artists, and Collective Futures Fund, with residencies including MASS MoCA, Vermont Studio Center, and Walkaway House. Seidel is also a co-editor of Analog Cookbook, a biannual publication focused on accessible approaches to analog filmmaking and photography.
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