Andre Lambertson

Biography

Andre Lambertson is a New York–based photojournalist, filmmaker, and teacher. His award-winning photo essays have appeared in Time, US News and World Report, Life, National Geographic, and the New York Times Magazine. His photographs appeared, accompanied by Kwame Dawes’s poems, in the Summer 2010 issue of VQR.

http://www.alambertson.com/

See Work

VIDEO

The Guardy and the Shame

By Kwame Dawes ,  Photography by Andre Lambertson

Kwame Dawes confronts the legacy of homophobia and the shame in Jamaica’s largely Christian culture.

VIDEO

To Disclose or Not?

By Kwame Dawes ,  Photography by Andre Lambertson

In early December 2013 and early 2014, writer Kwame Dawes and photographer Andre Lambertson traveled to Jamaica to investigate the experience of people living with HIV/AIDS in the Christian church.

REPORTING / Winter 2015

The Guardy and the Shame

By Kwame Dawes ,  Photography by Andre Lambertson

Jamaicans are primed to contend with all who speak ill of their country. As someone who grew up and lived in Jamaica until my midtwenties—although I now live in the US—I understand how the culture reacts to criticism.
ESSAYS / Spring 2011

City of Dust, City of Stones

By Kwame Dawes ,  Photography by Andre Lambertson

Photographer Andre Lambertson and I visited Haiti together four times during 2010. We spent a week there on each occasion. We were there to learn and tell the story of HIV/AIDS in Haiti after the earthquake. Three hundred thousand Haitians...

Summer 2010

Sometimes Miracles

By Andre Lambertson