Andy Freeberg

American, born 1958

BiographyBorn in New York City, 1958.

Andy Freeberg was born in New York City and studied at the University of Michigan. He began working professionally as a photojournalist in New York with assignments for Rolling Stone, Time, The Village Voice and Fortune, specializing in environmental portraits. In 1990 he moved to Northern California and currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, alternating his assignment work with personal projects.

His project, SENTRY, Gallery Desks in Chelsea, was presented in a one man show at the Danziger Projects Gallery in New York City in September, 2007 and received critical acclaim in the New York Times, The New Yorker and many other publications. Three pieces from the series were recently acquired by the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film. Freeberg and his SENTRY series was selected as a Discovery of the Meeting Place at Fotofest 2008 by Karen Sinsheimer, curator of photography at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. The photos will be exhibited at the 2010 Fotofest in Houston

His current project, Guardians, of Russian Art Museums, was selected for the book prize at Photo Lucida's Critical Mass 2008 and it will be published in 2010. Guardians was also selected as a winner at the Hearst 8x10 Biennial, in New York City.

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