Andres Gonzalez is a visual artist and educator living in Vallejo, California. His current work synthesizes in-depth research with the poetics of photography, looking for truths behind the fictional, mythic aspects of American history. His recently published book, American Origami, won the 2019 Light Work Photo Book Award, was shortlisted for the 2019 Paris Photo Aperture First Book Award, and was recognized by TIME Magazine, The Guardian, and Photo-Eye as one of the best photo books of 2019. Gonzalez is also the recipient of a Pulitzer Center Grant, a Light Work artist residency, and is a Fulbright Fellow.

Andres will speak about his recent publication American Origami, a 6 year investigation into American school shootings. The project brings together original photographs and primary research, including interviews, forensic documents, newspaper clippings, and images of the memorial ephemera left at the sites of these unfathomable tragedies. The varied elements repeat and fold into each other, presenting a layered and confounding narrative, illuminating relationships between myth-making, atonement, and collective healing.