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When Alex Waterhouse-Hayward’s birth in a Buenos Aires hospital was recorded with a burst of a photographer’s magnesium flash in 1942 he knew then that one day he would become a photographer. Alex taught algebra and ancient and medieval history in a Mexico City high school until 1975 when he and his Canadian wife Rosemary and two Mexican-born daughters moved to Vancouver. In Vancouver Alex started as a stills photographer shooting CBC drama and variety shows. But his real love were magazines and since the late 70s Alex has shot for almost every magazine and newspaper in Canada, Time, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Stern, the Guardian and many more. In Vancouver he shoots regularly for the arts section of the Georgia Straight weekly, for annual reports, campaign posters for both the Federal and Provincial NDP, etc. In 2001 Canada Post issued four rose stamps photographed by Alex. 12 years ago Alex started exhibiting his fine arts photography and has shown at the Simon Patrich Gallery, the Exposure Gallery and the Presentation House. Alex frequently contributes photography essays for online arts magazines like Vancouver’s Ripe Magazine, the Tyee and Montreal’s Arts and Opinion. For 13 years Alex taught photography for the Outreach Program of Emily Carr and now teaches at Focal Point. Alex is currently doing collaborative work with Vancouver based Argentine painters Nora Patrich and Juan Manuel Sanchez.
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