Alexia is a South African photographer born in Johannesburg and currently based in Cape Town. After completing a photography course at the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg, Alexia spent the next five years travelling through South Africa and the African continent as a freelance photojournalist documenting some of the continents places, people and struggles. Her work has been published in numerous international and South African publications, including the New York Times, The Guardian and UK Sunday Telegraph. She has been exhibited in New York, Cape Town and Johannesburg. In 2007 she received the Frank Arisman Scholarship at the International Centre of Photography in New York where she completed the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism Program
