Andrew Buck

Andrew Buck's interest in photography began at the age of seven when his father, also a photographer, gave him a Brownie camera. He studied Architecture at Syracuse University, but switched first to Journalism so that he could take photography classes, and eventually to Fine Arts, graduating in 1972. He found work as a freelance architectural photographer and became a founding board member of Light Work, a non-profit photography organization in Syracuse. Though he took a brief hiatus from photography because of an accident that left him in a wheelchair, Buck returned to it in the late 1980s with renewed vigor. The inspiration for his photographs comes from the landscape, but he focuses on the human reconfiguration of the land that he documents. Buck works exclusively in black and white because, as he states, "color just gets in the way."