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Praying for Rain, MX
2025—Ongoing

Projects
01Two Lakes, Two Stories
Michoacán Mexico, Guatemalan Highlands
2023—Ongoing
02East vs Southeast
2024—2025
03Morning in Kathmandu, Rituals of Respect
2024
04India in its Extremes2024
05Istanbul: God’s Gift to Man
2023
06Dubaï: Man’s Challenge to God
2023
07Madagascar: Not the Film You Saw as a Kid
2023
Alé

Documenting cultures, traditions, and alternate ways of living around the world, then wrapping them up into a concise and convincing story to help those in need. The world is beautiful, many (who have the means, crucially) are willing to lock themselves in an office for 40 years and miss it all. I plan to experience it and share it. I started travelling four years ago. Started learning languages 3.5 years ago, Spanish, French, Portuguese, soon Arabic. For those of us who have it, it doesn’t feel like a choice. It? It can’t be put into words. 

Currently involved in a self-motivated, unfunded project documenting and bringing to life a culture we never learned about in the “west.” The story of the P’urépecha Empire, their values, self governance in many places, and comunal anti-capitalist worldview is what drew me to the place immediately. They face an ecosystemic crisis in the ancestral heartland, Pátzcuaro and it’s eponymous lake. My current project is to document the struggle, beauty, tradition, and battling forces that are involved in this  700 year old Mesoamerican Empire and the lengths it has gone to to protect and preserve what it has created and considers its heritage. I work alone at the moment, fully availble for employment although this project will require ongoing attention in Michoacán, Mexico. Beyond that, I seek to work with NGOs, offering an extremely broad skillset, four languages, product design, branding, publications and print, social medía campaigns, code and custom web, and on location photography to which this site is dedicated beyond my current work in Mexico.
RIP Sebastião Salgado
RIP Anthony Bourdain

Heroes.
Alé

Documenting cultures, traditions, and alternate ways of living around the world, then wrapping them up into a concise and convincing story to help those in need. The world is beautiful, many (who have the means, crucially) are willing to lock themselves in an office for 40 years and miss it all. I plan to experience it and share it. I started travelling four years ago. Started learning languages 3.5 years ago, Spanish, French, Portuguese, soon Arabic. For those of us who have it, it doesn’t feel like a choice. It? It can’t be put into words. 

Currently involved in a self-motivated, unfunded project documenting and bringing to life a culture we never learned about in the “west.” The story of the P’urépecha Empire, their values, self governance in many places, and comunal anti-capitalist worldview is what drew me to the place immediately. They face an ecosystemic crisis in the ancestral heartland, Pátzcuaro and it’s eponymous lake. My current project is to document the struggle, beauty, tradition, and battling forces that are involved in this  700 year old Mesoamerican Empire and the lengths it has gone to to protect and preserve what it has created and considers its heritage. I work alone at the moment, fully availble for employment although this project will require ongoing attention in Michoacán, Mexico. Beyond that, I seek to work with NGOs, offering an extremely broad skillset, four languages, product design, branding, publications and print, social medía campaigns, code and custom web, and on location photography to which this site is dedicated beyond my current work in Mexico.
RIP Sebastião Salgado
RIP Anthony Bourdain

Heroes.
2026 Cherán, Michoacán. Fish brought up from Lake Pátzcuaro, unfortunately suffering from high levels of toxicity this has caused many locals to stop eating local fish altogether.
Near Cocucho, Michoacán, these intrepid cows line up to graze vertically, something I had never and have never seen since. 
Cherán, Michoacán
Cherán, Michoacán
Cherán, Michoacán
Cherán, Michoacán
Cherán, Michoacán
Cherán, Michoacán







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07.02.26 | Modernization vs TraditionA look at a phenomenon taking place around the world, immortalized in a Jimmy Nelson’s boo


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Alé
Cultural Photographer / Fotos de Cultura / Fotos Culturais / Photo de Culture
UX/UI 8 yrs, NGO/Culture Focus Now, Previously Google, IBM, Toyota + 


Alexander Benedict Sweet
Presents a collectión of photographs, the goal of which being to  goal of his brief, but determined career in photography. As an auto-didact, photo journalism is the current focus; to dignify those who suffer, elevate them through powerful photography, and force recognition of the damage done by the rapacious few, that hide their sins so easily from the masses. This can’t be human nature. We can’t allow the trickery of elite greed to divide us endlessly. At what point is a human a human, and thus worhty of the same life I was born into? The answer is from the beginning. Are we truly going to allow our trajectory to be determined for us by the select few? Education and non-compliance. Renunciation of convenience. Backwards is the way forwards; while retaining the lessons we learned as we followed the wrong path.

  
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