Your name:
Andrea Longacre-White

Age(optional):
25

Where are you from?
Suburbs of Philadelphia

Where do you live now?
Lower East Side

What's your day job?
Freelance graphic design, trying to make photo
and Forsythian press fulltimers...

Which artists inspire you?
Georges Perec, Claude Cahun, Agnes Martin, Sophie Calle, Walid Ra'ad,
Max Ernst, Ryan Kearney, Jason Wurm and the photo group, David
Wojnarowicz for his Rimbaud in New York series, Jim Goldberg for
Raised by Wolves

Describe that moment when you knew for sure that photography was
something you wanted to pursue seriously:
I think it was more the moment I realized that nothing else could
replicate or come close to the pure pleasure and sense of engagement
with the world that I felt/feel photographing.

What kind of camera do you use:
R7 Leica & a 500C Hasselblad

What's your favorite film?
Jacqueline Goss's The 100th Undone, Dr. Strangelove, The Graduate

What's your Favorite Museum?
Duchamp's Valise

Who is your hero?
Me mum

Who's your favorite musical artist/group?
NPR? Music has oddly never been a huge part of my life

What are you reading now?
Paris Peasant by Louis Aragon, a friends mom recently gave me Smart Women
Finish Rich

Favorite color?
Greens n browns

What are your favorite foods?
Melted cheese over anything, avocados, jones burgers

Do you have an interesting/obscure hobby? If so, tell us about it.
Humanly mechanized reproduction: the making of multiples by hand:
repeating repeating repeating till it expands beyond reason

If you could be any animal, what would you be?
An 11 month old wheaten terrier so i can roll around all day as my
puppy's playing equivalent!

Do you do any artsy stuff besides photography?
Make books, developping Forsythian Press, write, design

Have you exhibited your work in any other shows? If so, which ones?
Tinyvices: group show
Red, White and Blue: group show