Alex Turner (b. Chicago, Illinois) combines imaging technologies to highlight the profusion of sociopolitical and environmental concerns throughout the borderlands of the American Southwest. He has been awarded the University of Arizona Carson Scholarship and N-Gen Sonoran Desert Researchers Grant for his interdisciplinary research and artwork. He received the Innovation in Imagemaking Award and was selected to present his work Blind River at the Society of Photographic Education National Conference. He completed his MFA at the University of Arizona in 2020 and currently lives in Los Angeles, California.