About

Andy Freeberg was born in New York City, studied at the University of Michigan where he was the photo editor of the Michigan Daily. He moved back to New York where he began his professional photography career working for publications such as Rolling Stone, Time, The Village Voice and Fortune, photographing the likes of Miles Davis, Bill Gates and Neil Young. Freeberg began concentrating on his own photography projects and in 2007 his series Sentry, about the large gallery desks in New York’s Chelsea art galleries, had its debut at the Danziger Gallery in Chelsea. His project and book Guardians, about the women that guard the art in Russian museums was published in 2010 and has been exhibited extensively around the world. His series Art Fare was published as a monograph in 2014.

Freeberg’s work is in many public and private collections including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, SFMOMA and the George Eastman Museum. He currently lives in Northern California and part of the year in Helsinki, Finland.