Alex ten Napel (1958, Alkmaar) lives and works in Amsterdam. Ten Napel studied at the School for Photography in The Hague. His autonomous work is frequently published in Dutch and foreign magazines and newspapers. Since 1996 he has had several solo and group exhibitions and has been frequently commissioned by the municipality of Amsterdam and Utrecht. In 2005, his Waterportraits were exhibited at the Epson Photo Festival in the fortified town of Naarden, the Netherlands and at Paris Photo. Photos from the WATERPORTRAITS series were nominated for the Photographic Portrait Prize 2006, the National Portrait Gallery, London and Prix Photographique BMW-Paris Photo 2006, Paris. He has had exhibititions at Paris Photo 2005 and 2006. At the Pobeda Gallery in Moscow, Cook Fine Art in New York, Galeria Omar Alonso in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Foto Art Festiwal in Bielsko-Biala, Poland and Miami Photo 2008. His work has also been published in Le Monde Magazine, ZOOM, Nowy Biuletyn Fotograficzny ŚwiatObrazu and Foto&Video.