Photography by Alexa Jade Frankelis

Alexa Jade Frankelis is a researcher and visual artist based in New York City. Before attending Stony Brook University where she received her BA in Art History and Criticism (Hons.), she had also attended the BFA Photography and Video program at the School of Visual Arts. There she learned the same techniques and processes that spirit photographers and other artists from the nineteenth-century had used to create their images. She has shown her work in both institutions and galleries like Paul W. Zuccaire  Gallery, the School of Visual Arts, and Stephen Romano Gallery. As a researcher, Alexa has had her writings about witchcraft, spirit photography, and other occult subjects featured in Blurden Zine,Crisis and Catharsis, the University of Edinburgh. You can find more of her explorations into these eras on her Instagram, @TheMourningMoon.