Photo by Lucy Garrett
Andrea Morales is a documentary photographer, journalist and educator born in Peru, raised in Miami, now living and working in Memphis, Tennessee. Her personal work attempts to lens the issues of displacement, disruption and magic. Adding glimpses of daily life, meaningful or mundane, to the record through photography is central to her practice.
She has worked as a photojournalist in newsrooms small and large, such as The Concord Monitor, The Lima News and The New York Times, with equal enthusiasm. She’s also worked at the University of Mississippi’s Southern Documentary Project with students in the Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
SELECT CLIENTS
The New York Times; The Washington Post; The Wall Street Journal; The Bitter Southerner; CNN; TIME; NBC News; Pro Publica; The Guardian; The Atlantic
EDUCATION
University of Florida | BS in journalism | 2006
Ohio University | MA in visual communication | 2013
University of Mississippi | MFA in documentary expression | 2021
In Memphis, she serves as the visuals editor at MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, a nonprofit newsroom in Memphis reporting from the intersection of power, poverty and public policy along. Her work has been exhibited across the country and is held in public and private collections including The Do Good Fund, Memphis International Airport, and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.
Her first major museum exhibition Roll Down Like Water, opens at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in September 2024. The accompanying academic catalog, designed by Paul Holberton Publishing, will be published in October 2024.
CURRENTLY IN
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE