ALEX TURNER’S PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTWORK exhibits an astonishing range of styles: from the street photography and hand-cut collages of the ‘70s, the video manipulations of the ‘80s to his digital collages post-1990.

These compositions seek an alignment of visual elements into an abstract whole, the results more often like paintings or etchings than photography. Many celebrate the natural beauty of his boyhood home—Harrison Hot Springs, BC and the Upper Fraser Valley—or document its increasing development and urbanization, the loss of its wild lands that Alex so loved. The work was featured in a 2022 retrospective, Transformations.

Though known for these abstractions, Alex is also a fine observer of the environment, both urban and natural. These observational powers also found an outlet in his writing.