Bio

Andrew William Schmidt has been photographing throughout the various industries and cultures for over thirty years now. Starting out within the Art Department – Andrew worked with pro’s such as Ed Murphy in ArtWorks Hollywood as well as O.T. Ashton and Scott Stone with Add Bacon in Los Angeles. Photography has been featured in such publications as Whore Magazine, The Bay Guardian, SF Weekly, Common Grounds, Marin Magazine, and San Francisco Magazine. Books include “Cooking Crunk,” “Extraordinary Vegan,” “Grills Gone Vegan,” and “the Allergy Free Cook Bakes Cakes and Cookies”… Photographs have been featured in various venues and galleries throughout San Francisco and the Bay Area. Andrew shoots most commonly in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Nashville, and Floridian regions. “Without light, there is no life.”