Even though she was born in the sunny state of Florida, Andie considers the rainy Northwest state of Oregon to be her true home. Hands down. There is something magical about falling asleep to the lullaby of a million raindrops falling just outside your window for 250 out of the 365 nights in a year.

From a very young age, Andie has had a love for art in many forms—music, ink, movement, and colors. It was not until she used her first 35mm camera at the age of sixteen that she realized that photography has a magical way of uniting artistic expression with real-life storytelling. Since that day, it became her passion to use her talents to reach out and tell a story with photographs in such a way that people are moved to action.

After high school, Andie traveled to Northern England to spend nine months studying at a small Bible school called Capernwray.

While in Europe, she took a few months to backpack through some of the countries she had only dreamed of visiting, including Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland, Turkey, Ireland and Scotland. During her travels through different cultures and places, she continued to fall more in love with people and photography.

These interested eventually brought her to the visual journalism program at Brooks Institute of Photography in Southern California, where she met Tom Baker and began the camera strap business “HighKey Camera”.