Meet the Artist

Adolfo

Medina Alamo

aka. Boy Adolphe, Photography

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Adolfo Medina Alamo [aka Boy Adolphe, he/him] is a Spanish-Venezuelan photographer and creative director based in Toronto, Canada. Medina Alamo's interest in photography started as a hobby at the age of 14 after seeing fashion advertisements featured in issues of magazines from Vogue and Cosmopolitan Latinoamerica, which led him to obtain his first digital camera and take courses at local studios in his hometown. As the years passed, the interest grew into a passion and later into a full career, for which he will obtain his bachelor's from, the first person of his family to obtain a degree from an artistic/creative oriented field.Medina Alamo explores photography from a visual storytelling standpoint, using it to create eye-catching, timeless, and compelling conversations and dialogue with audiences, to broaden their perspectives. His work is primarily rooted in editorial photography, blending elements of fashion and conceptualism. Medina Alamo is a current fourth-year student of the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography (Honours) at OCAD University and will obtain his diploma in June, as well as participating in the upcoming GradEx 110 (OCAD University's annual graduate exhibition) in May featuring his thesis project, damned / d[amen]d, an artistic critique on organized religion and a re-adaptation of story of biblical connotation in the current day and age through his perspective as an atheist queer individual in his late 20's.
OCAD U - Faculty of Art
Photography
Major In progress, 2025
Dawson College
Diplôme d'études collegiales - Visual Arts
Major Completed, 2018

Photography and Creative Direction

2025, GradEX 110
OCAD University, Main Building (100 McCaul Street, Toronto, ON)
2025, Oscillations
OCAD University, Main Building (100 McCaul Street, Toronto, ON)
2024, Resolution
OCAD University, Main Building (100 McCaul Street, Toronto, ON)
2024, Dark Horse Espresso Bar Photo Competition for art display
OCAD University Photography Program
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