Andrew Dearman

Andrew Dearman is a South Australian photographer and arts educator, known for his work with vintage cameras and vintage photographic methods such as tintypes and ambrotypes. He frequently conducts workshops and demonstrations into historical photographic techniques.

Biography
Dearman is an Adelaide-based photographer and his 2008 doctoral thesis is titled Art Practice and Governmentality: The Role Modelling Effects of Contemporary Art Practice and its Institutions from the University of South Australia. Dearman also conducts academic research into analogue photography and contemporary art, which he sees as forming part of his art practice. He lectures at Adelaide Central School of Art.

Artistic style and subject
Although Dearman began as sculptor, he moved into photography and now uses vintage and antique cameras and vintage photographic techniques, along with found photographs and films to create his artworks. Dearman makes cameras and has also built a portable darkroom (dubbed the ‘Beasty’).