Alex & I: The Afterlife of Images, is a short explanatory text that accompanies the video essay Alex & I: Moving Pictures (2016). This work animates an inventory of images circulating in the aftermath of the civil war in Sri Lanka (2009) to recall the (mis)adventures of a  controversial Tamil refugee and media figure Sanjeev “Alex” Kuhendrarjah. Alex was a self-appointed spokesperson for 254 Tamils attempting to reach Australia by boat in October  2009, and for a period of time characterised a borderscape that spanned Australia,  Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Canada. The video charts pictures of Alex circulating across networks and the consequences of images moving offline and into real life. I present the video as a form of “survival media”, a term coined by the cultural theorist Suvendrini  Perera to describe the expressive outputs of Tamil migrant, refugee and diasporic subjects in the long aftermath of the war in Sri Lanka. The work also concerns artist and writer Hito  Steyerl’s notion of the “poor image”.