Alexandra Chavez is a photojournalist based in Los Angeles, California. In 2009, she graduated with a Bachelors of Arts Degree in Journalism from California State University, Northridge. Chavez started documenting the iconic Cesar E. Chavez Avenue that runs throughout East Los Angeles in 2009. In 2010, she had her first exhibition in which she displayed a concise compilation of her Cesar E. Chavez Avenue photographs. Chavez values truth in her photography, truth in the subject matter and truth in capturing it. She is currently working as a freelance photographer for events and portraiture while maintaining her journalistic approach.
"I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower.
Yet it is imperative that I speak to people, so I must desert that ivory tower.
To do this, I am a journalist-a photojournalist.
But I am always torn between the attitude of the journalist,
who is a recorder of facts, and the artist, who is often necessarily at odds with the facts.
My principle concern is for honesty, above all honesty with myself.."
W. Eugene Smith
"I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower.
Yet it is imperative that I speak to people, so I must desert that ivory tower.
To do this, I am a journalist-a photojournalist.
But I am always torn between the attitude of the journalist,
who is a recorder of facts, and the artist, who is often necessarily at odds with the facts.
My principle concern is for honesty, above all honesty with myself.."
W. Eugene Smith