Andrew Kondrat is an artist, educator, and advocate for health and safety in the arts. 

His photographic work continues in the long tradition of documentary photography, and seeks to explore themes of loss, entropy, and endurance through the act of recording. The city of Marion, Indiana has become both a home and primary subject for much of Andrew’s photographic work, with the midwestern United States serving as both a literal and biographical background as well. Film photography and analog techniques are an important part of Andrew’s photographic process, and he feels most at home in the darkroom tinkering with prints.

Andrew has enjoyed a 10 year career in higher education at his alma mater Indiana Wesleyan University, where he has served as the Safety Officer and Facility Administrator for the Division of Art+Design. His professional work there focuses on building safe studios and organizing programs to support good health and safe art practices across a wide array of disciplines and materials.  Andrew is passionate about empowering generations of students to create meaningful art and establish a practice that allows them to do that work for a lifetime.