Alex ten Napel (1958, Alkmaar) lives and works in Amsterdam. He studied photography at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. He is well known for his Alzheimer's, Water Portraits and Hens and Roosters series.

He exhibited Alzheimer's portraits on the walls of a nursing home in Amsterdam and portraits of children in the windows of a primary school.

The Water Portraits series were exhibited in the canals of Naarden-Vesting, the Netherlands, as part of the Epson Photo Festival.

Since 1988 his autonomous work has been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions, and has been widely published in photography art magazines, websites and newspapers around the world.

Many years of experience in portrait and fine art photography led to exhibitions in galleries and art fairs in London, Paris, Moscow, New York, Miami, Berlin, Amsterdam and more.

Paris Photo, the largest and most famous photography art fair in the world, showed the Water Portraits series in 2005 and 2006.

Parts from the Water Portraits series were nominated for the Prix Photographique BMW-Paris Photo and the Photographic Portrait Prize of the National Portrait Gallery in 2006.

In 2023 the Hens and Roosters series was published by National Geographic and the publication received a gold medal in the SPD (The Society of Publication Designers) Awards 59 in 2024.