024 Alex Kittoe

Drawing from both personal experience and a constant pull toward the unknown, Alex Kittoe’s photography holds a subtle tension: it captures the intimacy of a passing moment while evoking something timeless. He’s interested in the space between solitude and connection, in how light hits a window or a shadow stretches across the floor, and in the power of imagery to hold what words often miss. His work spans continents and cultures but maintains a consistent emotional tone, a longing for something just out of reach and the joy of following that feeling wherever it leads. With a distinct use of colour, light, and atmosphere, his photographs invite stillness, evoke nostalgia and wanderlust, and create room for viewers to pause and reflect.

Alex’s images are rooted in travel and a sense of constant movement, but they’re ultimately about presence. He photographs not just to record what he sees but to document a life intentionally lived, a map of curiosity, feeling, and place.  His work is both an escape and a mirror, offering a quiet reminder to pay attention to the beauty in the in-between.
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About the Artist
Alex Kittoe is a Kansas City–based photographer, visual artist, and storyteller whose work explores atmosphere, memory, and emotional stillness across travel, landscape, hospitality, and documentary imagery. Working across film, digital photography, and digital collage, his practice is rooted in cinematic color, transitional light, and quiet moments suspended between movement and place.

His images often move between natural landscapes, city streets, hotel interiors, and the smaller details found while traveling. Whether photographing a coastline, a room filled with afternoon light, or a fleeting moment on the road, Alex’s work is less about documenting a destination exactly as it appears and more about preserving how it felt to be there. Alex’s work has been exhibited internationally, including a solo exhibition in Seoul attended by approximately 50,000 visitors, and is held in the permanent collection of the Museum of Art + Light. He has collaborated with brands, musicians, agencies, hotels, galleries, and private collectors across both commercial and fine art projects.
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About the Publisher
Setanta Books is an online photo book publisher/bookseller. They sell rare and collectible Photography and fiction books.
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