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andrewsullivanphoto@gmail.com
Documentary photographer working in the humanist tradition. Author of Into Dust. Based in Olvera, Cádiz, Andalucía.
Thirty years patient, close, interested in ordinary life under pressure. For almost a decade a regular contributor to The New York Times. Available for assignment. Speaks Spanish.
The Work
On deadline, every frame had to justify itself immediately. In the critique room, every frame had to justify itself honestly. Urgency and depth. Instinct and intention. I've spent my career learning that these aren't opposites.
Into Dust, my first book, began at a calisthenics gym on a Barcelona beach. The men training there — mostly West African, bodies rebuilt into something extraordinary through sheer will — had survived a crossing that kills perhaps half of those who attempt it. I spent a year with them. Their saying: suerte o muerte. Luck or death. These men had been more than lucky. They had something extra. Not luck. Not just strength. Something that extreme hardship strips everything else away to reveal.
The Teaching
Since starting to teach in 2010, I've led more than twenty workshops across Andalucía, New York City, Mexico, and Guatemala. Small groups. Serious photographers. Experiences built on the deadline pressure of a working newsroom and the rigour of a serious critique programme — not photo tours.
At the centre of every workshop, one belief: your work matters. Not when you've mastered the technical. Not when someone important says so. Now, as it is.
A photographer who grows is one who dares. My workshops are for photographers ready to dare.
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Publications & Recognition
The New York Times · The Washington Post · The Wall Street Journal · Time · Fortune · MIT Technology Review · United States Olympic Committee · National Geographic
Exhibitions in Mexico, New York, Washington DC, Italy, and at the Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico. New York SPJ Deadline Club Award. 2023 graduate, Helsinki España Hostile Environment & First Aid Training.
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