Andrew Moore

Andrew Moore (born 1957) is an American photographer celebrated for his sweeping, time-intensive photographic series that examine the layered histories of natural and built environments. Known for his meticulous large-format technique, Moore creates images that straddle documentary and poetic narrative. Across projects spanning Cuba, Russia, Bosnia, Times Square, Detroit, the High Plains, the American South, and the Hudson Valley, he reveals the quiet drama of sites shaped by cultural memory, architectural evolution, and the passage of time. Series such as Detroit Disassembled, Dirt Meridian, and Blue Alabama stand among Moore’s most influential works, each pairing rigorous fieldwork with a deep engagement with regional histories. 

Andrew Moore was born in 1957 and raised in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. He studied at Princeton University, where he earned a BA in photography and film and began developing the visual language that would define his career. Andrew Moore now lives and works in New York City, continuing to produce immersive, long-form projects across the United States and abroad. 

Andrew Moore’s acclaimed monographs include Inside Havana (2002), Governors Island (2004), Russia: Beyond Utopia (2005), Cuba (2012), Detroit Disassembled (2010), Dirt Meridian (2015), and Blue Alabama (2019). Detroit Disassembled, which includes an essay by the late U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine, became a bestseller and remains one of his most recognized series, chronicling Detroit at a moment of profound transformation. For Dirt Meridian, Moore photographed the people and landscapes along the 100th meridian, culminating in a major exhibition at the Joslyn Art Museum. His award-winning documentary film How to Draw a Bunny (2002), co-produced and photographed by Moore, premiered at Sundance, where it won a Special Jury Prize. His work has also appeared in Art in America, Artnews, The Bitter Southerner, Harper’s, National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, TIME, Vogue, and Wired.

Andrew Moore’s photographs are held in top public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Library of Congress. He has exhibited widely in museums such as the Akron Art Museum, the Queens Museum, the Grand Rapids Art Museum, the National Building Museum, and the Joslyn Art Museum, among others. He has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the J.M. Kaplan Fund.

Jackson Fine Art has exhibited Andrew Moore’s work for over 15 years, including the solo exhibitions: New Work (2008), New Works from Cuba (2013), The South (2015), Dirt Meridian (2016), and Blue Alabama (2018). His ninth solo exhibition with the gallery, Theater, will open in January 2026.