Alec Wainman

Alec Wainman
Alec Wainman
Born
Alexander Wheeler Wainman

(1913-03-11)11 March 1913
Otterington Hall, North Yorkshire, UK
Died1989 (aged 7576)
NationalityBritish
EducationModern Languages
Occupation(s)Photographer, Linguist, university lecturer
Known forSpanish Civil War photography
MotherChristine nee Wheeler

Alexander Wheeler Wainman (1913-1989) was a British photographer, Quaker, and Slavonic Scholar at the University of British Columbia. He is most known for his work as a frontline medical volunteer for the Republican government and anti-fascist forces during the Spanish Civil War, and for the large collection of photographs he took during the war, which was published posthumously.