Andrew Stark

Andrew David Stark (born 23 January 1964) is an Australian candid and urban street photographer active since the early 1980s.

Early life and education Stark was born in New South Wales and grew up in the then semi-rural district of Liverpool before moving with his family in the 1970s to Strathfield, a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney. In 1981 he completed the Higher School Certificate at the Uniting Church and GPS affiliated independent boys school Newington College. Throughout 2007, Stark documented the Sutherland Shire district, known for the 2005 Cronulla race riots, and the resulting exhibit Down South was commissioned and shown at Hazelhurst Gallery, Sydney in late 2008. In 2019 he published Here come the townies: The early history of Gosford Rugby League: 1890–1950.

He works in black and white using a Konica TC film camera and a 28 or 40 mm lens. "He is drawn in by the emotions of his subjects – a fleeting look of vulnerability, a spontaneous burst of joy, or the blank stare of melancholy."

Personal life He lives on the Central Coast of New South Wales.

Publications Snaps from Sydney. Heathcote, NSW: self-published, 2003. . Candidly Inclined: The Photography of Andrew Stark. Heathcote, NSW: self-published, 2005. . Escaping into Life: A Psycho Study of the Contemporary Street Photographer. Sydney: self-published, 2010. . Here Come the Townies: The Early History of Gosford Rugby League: 1890–1950. East Gosford: self-published, 2019. .