Andranna Lann Seymore

Lifestyle, People, Portrait
Usa, New York

Andreanna Seymore captures slices of life of everyday people, and illuminates them in ways that prompt the viewer to think about what is occurring beyond the four corners of the photograph. Often described as documentary in style, Andreanna’s work is actually well choreographed. Through specific direction she is able to create photographic moments that seem natural or in motion.

Andreanna grew up in a small fishing and beach community on the East End of Long Island and moved to Brooklyn to pursue her passion for photography and the arts. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in 1997, and immediately began shooting for Rizzoli Publications. A seasoned photographer with over 15 years of professional experience, she has shot for The New York Times Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, Fortune, Blender, Discover, Life, Long Island Newsday, Marie Claire, Newsweek, New York Magazine, O: The Oprah Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, Wired, among many others. Her advertising clients include Getty, Puma and Citibank. Her first group publication was in the book 25 Under 25 Up and Coming American Photographers, published by powerhouse, with a foreword by Lauren Greenfield.

She earned her Masters in Social Sciences and Urban Affairs in 2005 from Queens College, where she co-developed and coordinated the Literacy and Mathematics through Photography (LAMP) Program . Funded by the Kellogg Foundation through the City University of New York, this course served as an outreach program to inspire a love for learning among Latino students of John Bowne High School. She was then asked to establish and coordinate a pilot LAMP Program for the Ministry of Education in San Salvador, El Salvador. She recently developed and taught the photography program for juniors and seniors at Eastern Suffolk BOCES who are interested in the fine art and commercial photography industry. She is currently an adjunct professor at Suffolk Community College and an instructor at the New York Film Academy in New York City.

Andreanna has been developing the project Scars and Stripes, American Roller Derby since 2008, traveling extensively within the United States, Canada, and England photographing the women and men involved, the subculture, and the integration with everyday life of this fast-growing phenomenon. The project, like the modern-incarnation of the sport itself, began with women only, but has rapidly evolved to include men in an increasingly equitable representation. A uniquely American-born sport, modern roller derby is a vibrant, positive, and revolutionary movement that is in the process of transitioning from counter-culture to mainstream—on both a national as well as global stage—with all the expected excitement, drama and growing pains associated with such transformation.

Languages: English