Photographer, educator, and editor, Andrea Birnbaum joins Michael Chovan-Dalton from the 2026 Chico Review to talk about her work and limited edition book, Spilt Milk.
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Photographer, educator, and editor, Andrea Birnbaum joins Michael Chovan-Dalton from the 2026 Chico Review to talk about her work and limited edition book, Spilt Milk.
"Spilt Milk is about family, memory, and what is handed down through generations. I am using family photographs and other items to construct images, exploring how certain behaviors have affected the family dynamic. Through this project, I am re-evaluating my personal history and altering my perspective with the newly acquired knowledge."
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Andrea Birnbaum is a social documentary photographer and educator. Her work as a freelance photographer spans many genres, including editorial, corporate, non-profit and portraiture for more than twenty years. She holds an MFA in Media Arts from Maine Media College in Rockport, Maine.
Recent exhibitions include: 2025 Family, Community and Belonging, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ 2024 Re-examining the Family Tree, Photographic Nights of Selma, Selma, Alabama 2021 Once Upon a Time, Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston, MA 2021 Memory, juried by Fran Forman, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC 2021 A Woman’s View, juried by Elinor Carucci, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC 2021 Julia Margaret Cameron and Pollux Exhibitio, FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain 2020 You Can Always See The Sun, Photographic Nights of Selma, Selma, Alabama
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