Alec Smith (She/They) is a trans* photographer, educator, and curator who was born and raised in a rural Kansas horizon.

She returned there to teach Photography and New Media at the University of Kansas, School of Architecture and Design in 2021 but now lives and works in Portland, Oregon as Photography Department Technician at PNCA and Adjunct Professor at MHCC.

Her bodies of work live primarily in book form, print, and community. Central to her practice is her dedication to portraiture combined with a poetic sequencing of the existence of consciousness of life and death, grief, energy, intimacy, and queer experiences.

Alec is also an editor and collaborator with friends at “From Here on Out,” an experimental publishing platform that organizes artist interviews, exhibitions, and publishing projects. She most recently has been collected in The Washington State University Queer Archives with other community members and artists sharing queer history and experience related to the Palouse region of Washington State.