Andrea Modica Quotes

United States, Photographer
January 18, 1960

Andrea Modica is an American photographer and professor of photography at Drexel University. Modica is known for portrait photography and for her use of platinum printing, created using an 8"x10" large format camera.

Sometimes something is so frightening I must look at it this closely or dismiss it altogether. Sometimes it's so stunningly beautiful I feel completely left out. With either extreme, photographing makes me have to deal with it.

Andrea Modica
I feel very lucky. I don't know what else there has to be. I'm happy, as corny as it sounds, to be living in a place where it's easy to live, easy to drive to the airport, easy to go pick up something at the supermarket and to have a circle of friends. Those were my goals in 1998, not to be queen of photography but to make a cultural adjustment to the West. And those are still more important goals to me than professional ones right now.

Andrea Modica

Whoever you are is to your advantage.

Andrea Modica
- Advantage
- You Are
When you start photographing somebody, it's like a lustful relationship and there's all the excitement of new flesh.

Andrea Modica