About the collection
The first in our Annual Series, the Alpha Collection aims to mark the rise of photography NFTs in 2022
The Light Annual Series is a collective celebration showcasing excellence in photography while capturing the state of photography and NFT culture each calendar year. By featuring excellence in photography from a wide collective of 100 artists, the Alpha Collection (2022) hopes to harness the power of web3 to elevate the entire photography community. It aims to become an artistic and market benchmark collection for photography NFTs. The word Alpha was chosen to mean that the collection is a "first version" or "inaugural experiment", but also pokes at the financial term meaning excess returns, which is colloquially applied to both cryptocurrencies as well as NFT art.
Alpha Collection photographers come from different walks of life representing the vast opportunity in NFTs today. Established pre-digital photographers are represented side-by-side with the Instagram-famous and the NFT-native. However, they all have one thing in common: they created beautiful, emotional, meaningful and coveted images which will be forever immortalized in the blockchain and shape the future of photography for years to come.
100
Artists
21
Locations
200
Photos
Themes that emerged
The Alpha Collection was designed to represent a wide array of genres, styles and photographers. The message is from the collective drop is simple: “We are doing this together”.
Thus instead of setting a theme, we took on the challenge of creating themes out of the submissions we received. This was a way to capture the current moment in photography NFTs rather than try to fit the space into a pre-defined vision.
Based on the submissions received and we categorised the collection into four sets. These sets will also be recorded into NFT metadata so that collectors can filter the collection by them. Each set aligns with certain genres, but not exactly.

Wonder
Environment
Landscape . Travel . Underwater

Living beings
Wildlife . Nature . Underwater Life

People in truthful settings
Street . Portraits (more realistic) . Architectural

Created settings and concepts
Abstract . Portraits (created scenes) . Conceptual
Hear from the artists
“So grateful for the inclusion with all the amazing talent of the Light Artists. Excited for what’s in store for us all!”
“This will be monumental. Such a great selection of photographers.”
“It's a special piece and I'm so proud to have it in this collection.”
“This is just the beginning”
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