About Me
Andrew is an amateur photographer who still doesn't know what most of the camera buttons do. But after 9 years of using only his iPhone, he's become pretty good at making some cool stuff without all the fancy camera settings.
He likes to create realistic-to-fantastical photographs of people, places, and things. His work leans heavily into color and atmosphere, drawing out emotion through content & editing.
Andrew lives in Chicago, though he’s collected a few other cities along the way, including Boston & Sydney, after leaving his hometown of Cincinnati. He seems to have finally stopped moving… for now.
Travel & music are his passions and photography is the result. He's never looking for "a good picture". Instead he wants to capture & create scenes that tie to memories & emotions typically inspired by the music he listens to & atmosphere of the place he is in.
Andrew holds a degree in philosophy, but works in finance (life is funny like that), and has traveled across five continents — always with an eye out for the next photoshoot destination.
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