Mexican-American photographer Alec Dawson makes nude art since 2007. Born in Mexico City in 1975 and having lived in the USA, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Turkey, and Australia, Dawson graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and has worked in that field since then. He lacks formal schooling in the arts and is an auto-didact in photography. Dawson also gives lextures on the subject of art nudes to photographic societies.