Alexander Ben
Photographer and Designer
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Available for full time and freelance work
Printed Works — Books, magazines, posters, etc.
Social Media — I can help you reach your target audience
Pitch Work — I help NGO’s and other independent organizations sell their projects and get the funding they need through polished presentations, websites, visuals, and application prototypes
Web, All Things Digital — I can build your website the way you want it on the platform of your choice, including hand-coded elements and customized templates
Branding — I design for brands based on their core values and imagery that aligns with their core offering
Typography and Type Design — I design custom typography for logotypes as well as complete typefaces, you can view my typography work at Nomenclature.xyz
→ Biography
I’m a multidisciplinary photographer, web dev, branding designer, type designer, animator and video producer along with whatever else the job requires. I speak four languages, English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese and am particularly interested in working with NGOs on environental projects exposing powerful enterprise that exploits our forests, our minerals, our people, and what they’ve decided will be cheap labor around the world. I travel extensively, primarily self-motivated as a way to learn more about the world and my place in it. And frankly, I’m fucking appalled at what I’ve seen. No one should be living in extreme poverty in 2026. I hope to create work that works to combat that imperialist profit-driven system, having come from exactly that working 7 years at IBM for corporate clients like Toyota, Google, Shell, BP, FritoLay, United Airlines, and many more. I’ve seen first hand how inefficient these teams are and how pointless and wasteful they are with the inconceivable resources they have access to.
My ideal career will be spent with skilled artists, curious minds, and in opposition to the American empire that has pillaged for 150 years now and continues to this day. For those who are unfamiliar with the history from let’s say 1898 until now, American has incited coup after coup, given billions to Israel’s landgrab and now genocidal project, taught the average American to be complacent, taken the nutrients from their diet, replaced them with tobacco led Reynolds Kraft products designed to addict the consumer. It has us overworked, underpaid, tax cuts in the wrong direction, and hardly a soul knows the truth about why Iran and Iraq despise us (1953 Coup, 2003 invasion on false premises) or why nearly every country in Latin America has reason to demand 20—30 years of life back, 100’s of thousands of disappeared prisoners, and economic destitutiion be rectified by the CIA and Mossad. The average American thinks paying taxes funds the government, when in fact the only true purpose of taxes is to give the illustion of a participatory government that NEEDS your taxes to function. The central banks have printed money as they please since just after the sinking of the titanic thanks to the Warburgs and J.P. Morgan. Cancer itself is an invention of the medical system fomented by the Rockefellers as they moved us from a plant based medicinal diet to one based on petroleum based pills that were produced by their massive empire. The Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, the Maxwells shaped our system of “education” (indoctrination in the purest sense) and look where we are now. The country has lost any heart or soul, God died long ago as a famous man once said, and was replaced by profits and the ultimate rapacious übermensch.
But the thing is, the world is still unbelievably beautiful. And by showing viewers of this site some of that beauty, showing how life is lived the same no matter where you are, bringing us every so slightly closer to an understanding that we are one and the same and that the priorities we’ve spent centuries establishing in the west, especially the USA; that is the materialism, the greed, the 7, 8, 9 zeros in accounts that couldn’t possibly be used in a lifetime, are in fact completely erroneous and perverse and if we don’t change them we will continue on with generations more and more miserable, more lost and isolated, more confused as to what they are missing and where to find it. In a paradoxical way this is both a portfolio site demonstrating the exact thing I abhorr and the direction I intend to take the rest of my 4o years working. In a way I see it as an advantage having understood intimately the world of corporate so as to work against it. I’ll say it again, this project is ill-defined. It’s flambant neuf as the French say. Brand new. When the USA bombed Venezuela and kidnapped Maduro we call it a military operation, when Iraq sends missiles towards Syria that we call terrorism. It’s nearly impossible for a project like this to make a damn bit of difference but at least I know it’s what I need to be doing and as I more than likely struggle to survive in its making, perhaps this site, along with various artifacts based on photography and written word storytelling will have its small affect in the materialist order and bring a smile to a single refugee as the philosophy I ascribe to, determinism, works its magic removing all choice and meaning and leaving us as nothing more than particles of matter bouncing accoding to laws, laws written by the divine, the same divine who set said particles in motion. That is, the First Mover.
On a more practical sense, below you’ll find some of my skills, projects, and to anyone knowledgeable in one of these please, reach out, debate me, because....
Conversation is the only true science, truth is only truth until it is replaced by the next truth.
→ Why You Should Hire Me
I know what I want. At 33 years old I’ve figured it out, and surely that feeling of certainty won’t last forever. But I’m motivated, with a plethora of talents you will almost never find in a single designer, and when I find a project that means something to me it’s game on, set your salary sure but if the project makes a difference culturally, environmentally, personally, or is simply aesthetically rad, the nature of the situation is you will be getting a lot more than you pay for. I’m obsessive with the things I care about. I taught myself most things design outside of school (Illustration Major), learned type setting, woodblock printing, book binding, printing, type setting, and I’ve designed 6 fully functional typefaces, animation, video production, and picked up product design on the job with zero experience. Since my 8 years experience designing for UX or UI or Product or whatever the latest title happens to be on LinkedIn I’ve learned 3 languages, 2 to a C1 CEFR level and I now teach them on the side. These are Spanish and French. In addition I speak B2 Portuguese and can easily converse with patient locals or impatient academics. Two short years ago I picked up photography with no prior experience or intention. I taught myself to create the photos and editing styles you see on this site, while travelling to 4 dozen counries. Each country I treat as both a photographic and a research project, and as such I’ve become obsessed with geopolitics. Seeing the poverty in so many of these countries made me want to do something meaningful, (as is often the case when one leaves the bubble of the United States), and I have multiple personal projects in the works as of February 2026 including a book documenting Mexico as I see it in all its verisimilitude. I’ve studied philosophy, history (especially given recent events the 20th century and I know enough to know I don’t know), local literature and film. Learning is an obsession and the only way I’ve found to cope with the depression that many of us feel. I’m currently learning Arabic with the goal of interacting with the local diaspora in Dearborn, Michigan and within a few years taking my first few steps into places like Oman, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, hopefully Yemen, and so many more.
Until now I have funded all of this with product design works, with about 8 years experience designing clean, efficient, user friendly applications that put the user at the center. The absolute dream is to mesh all of this working on environmental projects with NGOs and local governments, benefactors, and motivated individuals whom I know I can trust, whose motives are in the open and precise, and whose whose funding I can be sure is not hiding corporate agendas. A very, very difficult niche to enter into but I believe I have the skils to do just about every aspect of the creative process and am willing, above all, to be sent anywhere at any time to document, create content, social media work, documentaries, booklets, educational campaigns, and more.
→ Why You Should Not Hire Me
If you don’t find inspiration, compassion, love, and an admiteddly quixotic alacrity in the above to defend a world that is being desecrated by a vile empire whose stench fouls all it touches, run in the shadows by a rotten simulacrum of humankind, (for humankind is love and decency, compassion and empathy, preservation and cooperation) that rapes and kills from Mad Men style arm chairs as if giving an ad presentation, an empire who deliberately poisons its citizens in the hopes of creating patiens who feed on petroleum tubes like a moden Rockefeller Skinner Box, and above all one that disrupts it’s neighbors across the world to take what it wants, or thinks it wants, or might want, or might not even want but doesn’t want you to have it....if you supporrt this empire, who does it all in the name of democracy and freedom, removing all sense from the word democray which in its purest sense cannot exist beyond a small number of people anyways...well you can fuck right off this site is not for you. By being in opposition to that which I have laid out above you are a cog in the propaganda machiine and make no mistake, Americans are just as, if not more propagandized than anyone else. North Korea could learn a thing or two.
- BP (British Petroleum)
- Robert de Saint-Loup
- Odette de Crécy
- Cory Dollanganger
- Carrie Dollanganger
- Vladimir Cincinnatus
- Wendy Pain
- Kristian McFarce
- Francis Whatsler
- Robert Wackman
- Mattia Battia
- Charles Swann
Design generalist dedicated to traveling the world and documenting what I see.
The full scope of the project remains hazy as my understanding of the US meddling in foreign affairs, inciting coups, fomenting propaganda and otherwise being responsible for the mass murder of millions around the world continues to expand. Ideally I woud like to ttravel to each of these places, meet their people, tell the stories of cities, towns, villages, houses, individuals that were affected by our reckless and cruel actions while also focusing on capturing the beauty of these places, the beauty of being surrounded by something foreign and unknown, the smells and tastes and colors and textures and landscapes and above all the people themselves. I have not a clue how far this project will take me, to complete what I have in mind perhaps it will take ten years, and you can be sur