![]() As a result of my family’s successful court case against the plane’s manufacturer, I came into a sizable amount of money when I became an adult. history, the 1979 crash of American Airlines Flight 191 at Chicago O’Hare. My father died in the most devastating accidental air disaster in U.S. Sunset in a parking lot in Bali, Indonesia MST members in an encampment tent // Boy living in a Landless Workers Movement (MST) settlement in Apiai, Brazil How did you get into philanthropy and utilizing photography for social change? ![]() In 2006 I co-founded a non-profit, Other Worlds, for which I documented alternative economies around the globe three years later, inspired by some of those same economies, I created The Self-Portrait Project (SPP), which has become my life’s work. I originally moved to the city to play music, and always took photos out of a love for taking photos, but when the band I was in broke up I saw the event as an opening to pursue photography in a more intentional manner. I took photography classes in high school and college, shot for school newspapers and yearbooks, took odd jobs shooting events and taking headshots, and later after I’d moved to New York, assisted travel, portrait, and fashion photographers. Growing up, I loved the outdoors and wanted to be Ansel Adams or Galen Rowell. My earliest memory of photography is finding my father’s Kodak Instamatic in a drawer when I was 8 and using it on a school field trip to the zoo. Hi Andy! Tell us a little about yourself - when did you first become interested in photography and how did you get to where you are today? Photo by Michael Scott Slosar We spoke with Andy to learn more about his career path, how he’s using photography to drive social change, and what projects he’s tackling next. Andy is a former assistant to photographers Raymond Patrick, Ellinor Stigle, Gray Scott, and Richard Phibbs. He is an accomplished speaker on international social change, youth philanthropy, and alternative economies, and has addressed audiences at the University of Berkeley Law School, Dartmouth College, and the U.S. ![]() ![]() Andy is also a co-founder of Other Worlds, a multi-media non-profit that sought to document and disseminate cases of alternative economies around the world. Since 2009, The Self-Portrait Project has been empowering people in the creation of their own images utilizing a two-way mirror and remote control. Andy Lin is a National Geographic Traveler award-winning photographer and the creative director of The Self-Portrait Project, a visual art and archive endeavor. ![]()
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