Photo Credit Holly Andres

Holly Andres is a talented fine art and commercial photographer and director, who was born in Missoula, Montana in 1977 currently based in Portland, Oregon.

She started out shooting mostly fine art, she uses photography to examine the complexities of childhood, the fleeting nature of memory, and female introspection.

Andres carefully orchestrates stylized scenes, which she then suspends and shoots at the height of dramatic tension, seemingly moments before or after a major shift of events. Typically her images rely on a tension between an apparently approachable subject matter and a darker, sometimes disturbing subtext.