ABOUT HOPE
A San Francisco girl relocated to Durham, NC, I spent most of my life in a theatre or on a film/TV set as either an actor, director or producer. Photography is a natural extension of my theatrical work. Seeing life though a series of images, telling a story of a family, an animal and their human, a headshot that lets the viewer know the real person in front of the lens, this is what I am ‘about’!
I want to photograph you and yours in a fun, relaxed, and sometimes silly, way, so that years from now when you look back, you see a moment in time, not frozen as much as captured! Lovingly alive! Singularly YOU!
Hope Alexander
ABOUT ARDEN
Years ago, when I was an actress, I was lucky enough to do a play called As You Like It. It was written by the great William Shakespeare, and was a highlight of my professional acting career. The play takes place mostly in the Forest Of Arden, which was both a real forest that existed in the English West Midlands, and a fantastical forest from Shakespeare’s imagination. Shakespeare’s Forest is a place of transformation, where lovers reveal themselves, parents embrace their children, friends frolic, and nature transforms both itself and the people who inhabit it in all the seasons of their lives. It is a magical place. I decided to call my photography business Hope In Arden because Arden to me is a place where you can be your authentic self, and that is exactly who I want to capture in my photos of you and yours. It is my hope that you will have fun in this metaphorical forest, and that you will feel free to just be!