Andrew Kuykendall
Andrew Kuykendall is a photographer and painter whose work moves fluidly between documentary and fine art. Educated at the Art Center College of Design, he first established himself in fashion photography before expanding into a broader visual practice that merges intimacy with cinematic scale.
Kuykendall’s images often focus on overlooked or fading places—desert motels, gas stations, roadside diners, or lone cars set against vast skies. His style belongs to the tradition of American road photography, echoing Robert Frank, Stephen Shore, and William Eggleston, yet with a distinctly painterly eye for colour and atmosphere. Whether capturing the dusty yellows of desert light, the icy blues of a blurred Hollywood night, or the glow of neon signs in the silence of a forgotten town, his palette carries the weight of memory and mood.
His photographs are less about documentation alone and more about transformation: turning the ordinary into the iconic, the fleeting into the timeless. Kuykendall’s work lingers between reality and myth, offering images that are not only seen but felt—quiet meditations on travel, memory, and the beauty of places left behind.