Andre D. Wagner (born 1986) is an American photographer, living in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York.[1] His black and white street and documentary style photographs[2] primarily depict African Americans living in Brooklyn.[3]
Wagner was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1986.[4] He gained a BA in Social Work from Buena Vista University, Storm Lake, Iowa in 2010.[4] In 2011[5][6] he moved from Omaha to Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York[7] to study for a master's degree in social work.[5]
A review by Leah Ollman in the Los Angeles Times described Wagner as practising "a quiet, lyrical kind of humanism that comes straight out of the traditions of mid-20th-century street photography and the social documentary photo-essay."[8] He primarily photographs African Americans living in Brooklyn,[8] but also elsewhere in New York City. His book Here For The Ride (2017) documents people on the New York City Subway,[9][10] between 2013 and 2016.[11]
Wagner has undertaken commissions for Vogue, ESPN, New York magazine and The New York Times,[5] and created the promotional images for the film Queen & Slim (2019). In August 2020 he was made one of four Public Artists in Residence (PAIR) with the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, a year long civic art program that enables artists "to propose and implement creative solutions to pressing civic challenges."[12]
He uses a Leica M6 camera with a 28 mm wide-angle lens and Kodak Tri-X black and white film,[6] and makes his own prints.[5]