



Alex Webb (born 5 May 1952) is a photographer associated with Magnum Photos. He has primarily worked in color, has published 11 books, and has contributed to such magazines as GEO, Time, and the New York Times Magazine.

Webb first became interested in photography as a high school student and in 1972 attended the Ape iron Workshops in Miller ton. By 1974 he was working as a photojournalist and in 1976 he became an associate member of Magnum Photos. During this time he documented small-town life in the American South. He also did some work in the Caribbean and Mexico, which led him, in 1978, to begin working in color, which he has continued to do.
Webb has produced six monographs with bodies of work from The Tropics (Mexico, the Caribbean Islands, Africa, and Asia,), Haiti, Florida, the Amazon region, the U.S.-Mexico Border, and Istanbul, and one retrospective monograph, The Suffering of Light.
Webb now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, Rebecca Norris Webb, who is also a photographer.