Photography as the Beginning of Life: Andrew Lauffer

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Guest Author: Leslie Fast (OVACIntern)

Andrew Lauffer, The Protected Tree, Photography, 11x14

Growing up in Protection, Kansas, Andrew Lauffer discovered his passionfor photography early in high school.
Andrew suffered through a stroke at age four, which left a tremor that hediscovered can be controlled through photography. “…Ever since, I have loved takingpictures, and it does help!” Andrew writes, “I am thankful for my high schoolcomputer teacher. I started out in sports photography, which I still do, butnot as much as my still life, landscapes, and contemporary.”
Andrewreceived an Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition Professional Basics Grant to help withinstallation costs for his first photography exhibition, “Where Life Began.”  The show highlighted Andrews progress fromgrowing up in Kansas, to the present where he currently teaches full time atNorthwestern Oklahoma State University in Alva.

Artist Andrew Lauffer (r) chatting with attendees of his exhibition.

Afterreceiving funding from the grant, Andrew expressed the benefits of his first photographyshow he had planned since December of 2011.
“The successful thing was that people were amazed and wanted me to doan all Protection, Kansas photography show. Photography for me is a change in mylife. I hope I show people a way to change the way they look at things throughmy photography.”
Thegrant not only helped Andrew fund his first show, but also gave insight forplanning future photography exhibitions as an emerging artist.
The next OVAC Artist Grant deadline isJuly 15. See the OVAC websitefor more information.