chip’s drawing of a robot from outer space, 2005

andrea longacre-white
born: suburban Philadelphia
Currently resides in New York, New York

website: www.andrealongacrewhite.blogspot.com

work statement
These photos reflect an ongoing investigation into isolation and
connection within contemporary American culture. Upon quiet backdrops
both literal and social architectures suffocate space, complicate the
relation and separation of person and place, and punctuate loneliness
with moments of affinity.

In this age of standardization and acclimation I look to make record
of the human or individual mark, and see photography as a means from
which to indexically highlight and collect.

I hope to gain insight into issues of daily isolation, detachment and
reconnection, by focusing upon imaging rituals of everyday life, their
remnants and their discards; from the indelibly prominent mark to the
nearly invisible trace of human interaction in and with the world.

bio
I grew up in the suburbs of philadelphia and became interested in photography at an early age as a form of rebellion against my mother who was a painter/designer. Photography became mine, and though literature history and cultural studies throughout college were hugely important, photography was and remains my first and greatest love.

Going to Hampshire College, the interdisciplinary nature of my studies was heralded, and it was not until leaving school and coming to new york, that a sense of careerism or specificity was forced upon me, and while doing freelance design work to pay the bills, I have continued to shoot. I’m currently 25.

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