Hey, I’m André. Call me Dré. I tell stories.The camera’s not only a tool, it’s a bridge into the hidden narratives that shape us. I’m not here to decorate walls. I’m here to stir something in you.
I grew up in the high desert of California, the Antelope Valley. As a kid I wandered abandoned houses, listening to the ghosts of lives long gone. Those forgotten spaces lit the fire.
Years later left a steady art-director job and moved to San Francisco chasing something real. An MFA in documentary photography dropped me into the raw edges, underground dining scenes, rare diseases, semi-pro wrestling, living with metal thieves under a freeway off-ramp. I hunted the threads that bind us, the flickers that remind us what it means to be human.
Then the iPhone hit, everyone had a camera in their pocket. I didn’t see a toy. I saw a new canvas, a way to remix the old and challenge what a photo could be. I still my iPhone to this day.
Every frame I take is more than a picture, it’s an invitation. To feel. Enter the frame. To connect. To catch a glimpse of yourself in someone else’s story.
Let’s see where the stories take us.
