Artist Statement
This body of work is a visual meditation on fatherhood—what it gives, takes, and leaves behind. Through photographs, I trace the quiet, often unspoken spaces where love, loss, and legacy meet. Each image is a fragment of memory, a reflection of growth, and a dialogue with the past. Fatherhood exists in a duality: a role filled with deep love and protection but also shaped by inherited pain and silence. This work explores that tension. It confronts the generational echoes of trauma while seeking moments of tenderness, vulnerability, and healing. These photos are not just about being a father but about slowly,imperfectly, and intentionally becoming one. Growth is nonlinear in this context. It comes in stillness, repetition, and rupture. Reflection is not just looking back but actively re-seeing —questioning the roles we’ve inherited, the patterns we repeat, and the futures we want to shape. This work is for anyone who’s ever tried to break a cycle, to rewrite their story, or to build something softer from something hard. It’s about the weight of family and the grace of trying anyway.
Artist Bio
Andrew Foster (b. 1986) is a photographer born in Vermont and raised in Maine. He studied photography at the New England School of Communication in Bangor, ME (now Husson University), where he earned his B.A. in Photography. For nearly two decades, he has worked as a freelance photographer both nationally and internationally, with a focus on editorial and commercial work throughout New England.
Andrew’s practice is rooted in both natural and controlled studio lighting, and he works fluently across film and digital formats, with a particular emphasis on medium and large format photography. His work has appeared in a range of print and online publications, and he contributes to Caravan Images as a stock photographer.
Andrew discovered his passion for photography at a young age while spending time in his aunt’s photography studio in Vermont. Today, his creative process is driven by a deep interest in place — it is place that draws him in first, sparking a visual investigation that often expands to include the people who inhabit it. His current work explores the subtle and poetic interplay of form, light, and atmosphere, using photography as a tool for observing and distilling the emotional resonance of the landscapes that surround him.