Andrea Poulsen is an artist who uses photography both as a form of creative expression and a documentary tool. She earned a BFA in the subject at University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and remains connected with the university as an instructor in Continuing Studies. Using her own brand of humor and creative encouragement, she has taught the basic principles of photography to over 400 students from grade school age to high schoolers, professionals, and retirees.
Andrea’s current creative project, Wild Gravity, is a photography series using the vandyke brown historical print process to explore contemporary imagery evoking science, nature, and humanity’s search for meaning. She writes:
I find it truly inspiring that everything we know about the universe essentially comes from humans observing closely and analyzing that information over generations. We have so much knowledge, and at the same time, impenetrable mysteries remain. For thousands of years, cultures have expressed the conundrum of existence using mythology and poetry. Now we are discovering our cosmology from scientific evidence, and the stories it reveals are every bit as astounding and meaningful as those that sprung from the psyche of our ancestors.
Andrea has been practicing photography for over 20 years, and founded Andrea Poulsen Photography as a business in 2016 in order to provide her community with quality imagery where needed. Visit www.andreapoulsen.net to view both her fine art and creative documentary portfolios.
