Alex Wedemeyer is originally from the West Coast and received a BA in English from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1999. While studying in the San Francisco Bay Area, he served as Editor for the Berkeley Fiction Review, a small-press fiction journal, and as database programmer for Source Book Publications, an Oakland-based publishing company. He relocated to Chicago in 2000, where he graduated from the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities at the University of Chicago in 2001 and from the Master of Fine Arts in Writing program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003. While in Chicago, he studied writing (including academic, editorial, and creative) and photography, and from 2002-2005 produced the Chicago: Inside the Map documentary project, a digital photography odyssey into the world of Chicagoland.

In the Winter of 2004, Alex founded WildOnions.org with the intent of bringing the fruits of this exhaustive Chicagoland adventure to anyone with an interest in exploring this extraordinary place of prairie and of shoreline, of quiet roads and pounding thoroughfares, of high buildings and tall grasses. WildOnions.org offers an extensive set of web-based resources for residents and visitors alike to learn where and how to experience Chicagoland more extensively. It also presents a visual showcase that highlights the traditional Chicago highlights as well as parts of the city and its surrounding communities that too-often seem unheralded.

Since 2007, Alex has lived in Boulder, Colorado. He is currently working on a global image project. Select images from Alex's photography portfolio are on view at OneHundredImages.com.

Comments and correspondence are always welcome; please find Alex on Facebook!

Alex in Rogers Park >
(February - 2004)