Andre D. Wagner

Andre D. Wagner (b. 1986, Omaha, Nebraska) is a contemporary photographer and artist based in Brooklyn, New York. His work explores the sacred and poetic dimensions of everyday life—how light, presence, and the human spirit intersect within the rhythm of the city. In more than a decade of photographing New York City streets, Wagner creates images that move between documentary and dream, observation and participation, and offers a lyrical meditation on community, identity, and belonging.

Originally from Omaha, Wagner moved in 2011 to New York, where his background in social work evolved into a practice of seeing—using the camera as both witness and mirror. His photographs honor the continuity of the Black experience in America while expanding into universal themes of love, struggle, beauty, and transcendence.

In addition to his street work, Wagner maintains a self-portrait practice that reflects his evolution and the fluidity of self across time. His landscape images, often made in quiet moments of retreat, evoke the healing intelligence of the natural world, where light becomes language and stillness becomes revelation.

Across all his work, Wagner seeks to translate the invisible currents of life into visible form, and bridge the everyday and the eternal through the lens of presence.

Wagner's commitment to his craft also extends to the meticulous process of developing his own black-and-white negatives and producing silver gelatin prints in his personal darkroom.

His photographs have been commissioned by The New Yorker, The New York Times, Esquire, W Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Time, and Vogue, among other publications.

Wagner’s photographs have appeared in a number of solo exhibitions and group shows in Los Angeles, New York and North Carolina. His first monograph, Here for the Ride, was published by Creative Future in 2017. His current body of work titled New City, Old Blues is to be published in 2026.