In Photos: Alex Prager’s Hyperreal Work

Culver City, 2014

The photographer works like a director, casting actors to follow scripts she has written, and using sets she builds, machines for lighting and weather and lifting

Crowd #5 (Washington Square West), 2013

While the scenes are fabricated, the characters Prager shoots are often played by people on the street whose style and look have caught her eye

Polyester Julie, 2007

‘Her work is reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch, her glamorous noir-esque heroines dying horrible deaths by drowning, falling out of windows or suffering excruciating loneliness,’ according to Alexandra Spring in the Guardian