Drew Waters (b. Australia) is a photographer and writer based in Berkeley, CA and Asheville, NC. He received a BA (Honors) in Cinema and Cultural Studies at La Trobe University and an MFA in Photography from the Hartford Art School. His work explores the built environment, suburban ecology, and the commodified spaces of urban living. His photographs have been exhibited in galleries in the United States and abroad. In 2021 he was awarded the Svensk Bokkonst, Swedish Book Art Award for Shelf Life, a self published photo book. In 2022 he was awarded the Hannes Wanderer Photo Book Prize at Hartford Art School.
While living in present time and space, we occupy places, yet these same places also have the capacity to occupy us, to reveal indelible and visible traces of inherited histories, precedents, and ideals.