Andrew's work looks at mortality and our relationship with death. Inspired by a quote by J L Borges from 'The Immortal'; "To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is mortal"; Andrew brings to our attention the random and brutal consequences of death by photographing road-kill. By looking at the dead bodies of animals and birds Andrew encapsulates the privilege he feels in working with the beauty of nature.
In using photography Andrew plays with the idea of immortalising a moment. In this attempt to gain some control over time passing, life and death he discovered that rather than immortalising his subject at the moment he clicked the shutter he had made the moment of death more present than ever.
Nature Morte, Vanitas and Tender, his combined work on road-kill has been exhibited in the exhibition "Blood and Time" at Copenhagen Place, London; in "No Espere Mas" at the Pop-Up Gallery, London and as part of Free Range at the Old Truman Brewery, London. He was selected by Don't Panic Magazine for their Pick of Best Graduate Photographers in June 2010 and has been profiled on 1000 Words in an interview with Aaron Schuman.
Andrew is currently teaching as a sessional lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University.
