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Alextan Art Works – International Wedding & Portrait Photographer : Penang , Malaysia , Kuala Lumpur , Singapore , Australia , Europe , New Zealand bio picture
  • The Photographer : Alextan

    International Award Winning Wedding & Portrait Photographer base in Malaysia.

    Alex Tan never knew that he would end up as wedding & portrait photographer when he first bought up a DSLR Canon Eos 1000D in Dec 2008. Initially he bought his first DSLR for the purpose of capturing some memorable moments in his daily life and of cause to replace his old rusty compact camera.

    Upon his move he picked up his camera and looked seriously for the first time & he photographed his first wedding that falls on March 2009 with his partner Vin Lim and was in love. The fantastic theatre and emotion of weddings had move him further explore in this industry.
    Alextan Art Works established since 2009 as Alex believed that every pieces of his works is an art but not just a photo, most of his shots are artistic, and journalistic.

    Alex has less than 2 years experience in this industry but his work inspired by lots of client currently he had expanded his portfolio from weddings , portrait and also to high fashion commercial shots.

    2010- Photographing With A Cause Photo Competition 2010 - Grand Award
    2011 - WPPI 2011 1st Half Online Competition ( 4x Accolades of Excellent Awards )
    WPPI 2011 2nd Half Online Competition ( 4x Accolades of Excellent Awards )
    2012 - Asia Top 30 Photographer - Signature Wedding ,January 2012 Issue

Mission COMPLETE – Peggy & Shin Thian

Would like to thanks Ray Eoh for inviting me to shoot for this 2 young & energetic future teacher :P Yes i repeat again they are future TEACHER!!This is my very first graduation portrait i’ve done so far and its kinda fun and excited as shooting together with a bunch of crazy photobug. A big congratulation for both of them again !! We manage to shoot for almost 2 hours plus under the hot sun. Too bad i was not allow to shoot in the library as i was wearing slippers and shots :P Well here are some highlights for the day …

*Shooting buddies*
Ray ,Derick ,Raymond , Auwen

Here comes the photos …. tadaaaaaaa Hope you all like it :)

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Anonymous - August 16, 2010 - 3:44 am

nice one!!! great album bro..by Kevin Tan

Engagement Portrait : Yee Voon + Yen Pin

Posting an engagement portrait i shot last year sorry for the delay due to lots of backlog :P

Yee Voon long old friends of mine during secondary school day havent meet up for more than 10 years ! Managed to meet up through a forum and she engage me to shoot for her ROM & Couple Portraits. Shot all these shots in Taiping Perak , although there were some incident happened & heavy rain during the shooting day but we still manage to complete the half of the mission, we continue another 2 hours session in Penang after 2 weeks for the complete album. Here are the highlights of the shots i did. A big congratulation again for Yee Voon & Yen Ping.

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We are back in Penang :P weeeeeeeeeeeeee

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Angelic – QIQI

Irene & Eddie I knew them back in 2004 at Citibank. It was my pleasure given a chance by them to shoot for their lovely princess QI QI. This is my first official baby portrait after 1 year plus of photo-shooting experience. Qi Qi is coming to 2 years old in 1 week time, therefore her mum plans to have a photo shoot before her birthday as one of the birthday present for her. We discussed everything a day before and we shoot immediately on the next day!! It was raining heavily in the morning on that day itself, we were disappointed but thanks god the weather turned good in the afternoon. We spent about 3 hours time for the entire session, it’s really tired as we were all running here and there chasing over the energetic monster over the big field. We had lots of fun and thanks god the result turns out to be awesome! Love them so much!!

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wendy - August 3, 2010 - 2:25 pm

This album really nice…love it….!!! jia you arr….!!!

Alex Tan - August 3, 2010 - 4:06 pm

ah loo thanks ooooo :)

More Than Just A Photo – Hip List 2010

Glad to announce that Alextan Art Works will be featured in The Hip List 2010 Magazine ” The Art Of Malaysia Wedding Photographers ” For those who have no idea what is HIP LIST is you can always refer to THE HIP LIST for more information.

Never though before my work would be list in HIP LIST , really glad that i have a chance to share my artworks through here :) Getting excited and looking forward for the 1st issue in coming Sept !!!!!!

Here are my layout for HIP LIST 2010 :)

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Albert Yap - July 14, 2010 - 4:45 pm

Woohoo, very nice!!!

Penang kaki - July 30, 2010 - 5:12 am

Congratulations and keep up the great work!! :)

seraphangel - July 30, 2010 - 8:05 am

congratulations, how did you get listed there? what criteria and how do you apply for it?

wendy - August 3, 2010 - 2:27 pm

Congrats …..

Suesan | No Boundaries

If you still remember the previous album “suesan | I Love Rain” this series actually we took in the morning before rain :P

This album took us about 1 hour session to shoot and all the idea came out spontaneously. We were just having fun shooting at the construction side. The wind blew and the sky was blue totally love the weather !!!

Shooting with young energetics girls isn’t that fun as we running here and there :P and i was sweating like no body business ~~ Well here are some of the highlights of the day hope you guys like it !!

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~charng - July 5, 2010 - 8:56 am

nice :) feel the happiness !

Alex Tan - July 5, 2010 - 11:47 am

Thanks !! The happiness is from the talent glad that she enjoyed !!

Suesan | I Love Rain

I manage to knew this lovely girl through my girl friend as they are both colleague, i haven’t got a chance to meet up her in person only through msn and facebook chat.

We manage to discuss and shoot her portrait over a night and we shoot immediately next morning after a long night party :D

We don’t have a theme to shoot , not even select any place to shoot also , the weather was good initially but turned bad after our lunch break and we decided to shoot under the heavy rain. The shot took us about 15 minutes to complete the ” I Love Rain” series :)

Special thanks to the lovely umbrella from suesan and of cause my lovely girl friend hold the umbrella for me make sure that im not wet :P and of cause not to forget to thank my bei bei for the make up done for suesan :D

Here goes the result tadaaaaa …

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