Alex Sweetman鈥檚 photographic education began as a student at the Center of the Eye in Aspen, where he had the opportunity to meet and work with many of the most important photographers in America.
He did his graduate work with Nathan Lyons at the Visual studies workshop, in Rochester, New York, where he had the pleasure of working with Joan Lyons, Newhall, Frederic Sommer, John Wood, and others. He taught history for over a decade at the Art Institute of Chicago, before taking a position to听 develop an interdisciplinary program in Media Arts in Colorado. His creative work is in the permanent collections of over three dozen museums in the US and abroad. He has听 produced major pieces of public art and a wide range of limited editions from letterpress. He has curated numerous exhibitions including the seminal exhibition at the听 California Museum of听Photography in 1984 of a 375 book of the history of the听photographic book.
For over 40听years he has focused on the phenomenon of photo听 publishing and has worked to assemble one of the largest and finest public collections of听its kind in the world. His photographic work over the last 30听years has been in panoramic color photography in the US and Mexico, which he is currently archiving and听printing digitally.