Hi!
My name is Alexandra (Alex) Thomas. I’m a photographer, videographer and digital marketing manager based out of Austin, TX.
I’ve had a camera in my hands since I was 18 months-old when my great-grandmother gave me a disposable film camera. I toddled all over her house that day taking photos of everything I saw. Ever since then I take my cameras with me everywhere I go. I officially started my business at 14 years old & I have been taking photos & videos every day since, all around the world.
Around that same time, my career path was originally set to become a veterinarian as I was beginning studies & volunteering in the animal hospital at the local shelter. That all changed when I attended my first MISSIO concert & fell in love with the music industry. After seeing MISSIO & Zeale live at House of Blues Dallas in 2017, I researched and learned all that I could about the music industry.
That same year I went on my first small tour runs as photo, video, merch & TM for a few Dallas bands, skipped my high-school graduation to work as a photographer at Hangout Music Festival, worked for a local music venue as the house photographer, & volunteered for multiple music publications as a photojournalist. I continued to photograph concerts all over the U.S. & filmed my first music video all by age 16.
At 18 years old, I met my tour family in Prophets and Outlaws (PAO). I spent three years on the road with them doing photography, videography, digital marketing management, tour management, merch design, website design, publicity, & much more. I had the honor of directing, shooting & editing the video & creating the marketing campaign for their 2021 single with Pat Green, “Little Bit of Love”. Through this song & my marketing campaign, we managed to to raise over $10,000 in the first week of the songs release for The North Texas Food Bank, providing over 30,000 meals to hungry children, seniors & families across North Texas during the horrible snowstorm that left many without food or shelter.
In 2021, I started my own music publication, Tour Life Mag, with the goal to help get more women, POC, and LGBT+ creatives in the music industry, assisting them any way I can with the knowledge & experience I’ve gained over the years of nonstop work in many different roles of the music industry.
As of February of 2024 I've officially started a long-time passion project of mine called "Life With"; which is a video series about different mental health conditions, what they can look like from person to person, and how they can affect people in their day to day life both positively and negatively. My hope for this series is to help us learn more about one another as human beings, bring us closer together, learn how to better care for one another in our often invisible struggles and hopefully help those struggling to feel less alone in their mental health journey.
Since creating AETPhotos nearly a decade ago, I've worked with 100s of photo & video clients in all different fields and 10+ digital marketing management clients from musicians/bands, music venues, publications, party planners, clothing brands, restaurants and companies all over the U.S. Currently I'm working full time as a digital marketing coordinator for a marketing research company, running Tour Life Mag managing an incredible team of photographers and writers from all over the world, filming directing and editing music videos, working hard on my Life With series and doing photo, video and digital marketing projects every chance I get. Follow me @AETPhotos on every social media platform to keep up with me!
I'm always looking for new adventures, so don’t hesitate to reach out to me at aetphotographer@gmail.com to work together for any photo, video, or digital marketing needs.
