About Andy Barnham

Andy Barnham

Andy is a portrait photographer and a British Army veteran. Born in Hong Kong he is both a child of the end of the British Empire and he is also the son of a refugee; his mother and her family fled Vietnam in the closing days of the Vietnam War finding sanctuary in the USA. Andy served in the British Army, completing including multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, following which he put his rifle down and picked up a camera.

His work has achieved recognition in Prix de la Photographie, Paris, the Monochrome Awards, the Neutral Density Awards, the Tokyo International Foto Award and was nominated for the Human Cycle of the Prix Pictet. It has been exhibited at the Southbank Centre as part of Refugee Week, The Tramway (Glasgow), the Cambridge Union, Ffotogallery (Cardiff), Photo North (Leeds), Migration Yorkshire (Sheffield) and at the University of York.