Photographer
In a career spanning more than thirty years Andrew Testa has worked extensively in the UK, the Balkans and the Middle East photographing issues around conflict, human rights and the environment. Andrew was born in London, England in 1965. He began his photographic career in the early 1990s working as a freelance for the Guardian and Observer newspapers. Throughout the decade he documented the growing Environmental Protest and Animal Rights movements in the UK. In 1999 he shifted his attention to the Balkans covering the war in Kosovo. At the end of 1999 he moved to Kosovo, which he used as a base to cover events throughout Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East. in 2005 he moved to New York where he was based for five years. He now lives in London with his wife and two children. In recent years he has focused his attention on the political upheaval caused by Brexit and it’s long term consequences for the United Kingdom and Ireland.
He is a regular contributor to the New York Times and his work has been widely published in magazines such as Newsweek, Time, Stern, Geo, Paris Match, Der Spiegel, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Independent Magazine, Mother Jones, Mare and Granta.
Awards:
World Press Photo:
2006 - 2nd Prize General News singles
2002 - 1st Prize Daily Life Stories
1994 - 3rd Prize Nature & Environment singles.
Getty Grant for Editorial Photography:
2006 - Awarded to fund completion of long term photographic work on Kosovo
NPPA Best of Photojournalism Awards: 2006 - 1st prize Enterprise Stories
2008 - 1st & 2nd prize News Photo Gallery
2008 - 1st & 2nd prize Features Photo Gallery
Amnesty International Awards:
1999 & 2007- Photojournalist of the Year.
POYi: Award of Excellence - 2001, 2005 & 2006
Days Japan Photojournalism Awards: 2006 - Special Jury prize.
International Documentary Photography Award, Korea:
2005 - 3rd prize.
Hansel Mieth Award: 2002 - Runner up
One World Media Awards: 1997- News Photographer of the Year.
Nikon Awards:
1996 - Photo Essay Award.
British Environmental Media Awards: 1994 & 1995 Honorable Mention.
Exhibitions:
Noordelicht:
2006 Another Asia.
2007 Act of Faith.
2008 Beyond Walls.
2009 The Pursuit of Happiness.
Perpignan:
2006: The Moken
2008: Kosovo
2003 War Photo Ltd: A Decade of War. Croatia
2003 Palais fur Kunst: Very British. Germany
2005 Angkor Photo Festival, Cambodia.
2008 Arte Foto Festival, Ancona, Italy
2010 Cultural Centre, Liege. Belgium ‘La part de l'antilope revient toujours au lopard'.
2011. Galeria Fotografia. Ljubljana, Slovenia.'End of Balkania'
2012 Yangon Photo Festival, Myanmar
2020 Festival della Fotografia Etica, A Nation Divided, Italy
2023 A Great British Welcome, More London, UK
2023 Radical Landscapes, William Morris Gallery, UK
World Press Photo: 1994, 2002, 2006
Andrew was a participant in the Joop Swart Masterclass in 1997.