Andrew McConnell was born 1977 and began his career as a press photographer covering the closing stages of the conflict in Northern Ireland and the transition to peace. In 2004, he left press photography to concentrate on documentary photography and has since worked on stories worldwide, covering events in Europe, Asia and in Africa, where he has lived for the past four years. His work regularly documents people and places that remain under-reported in the international media and his images have appeared internationally in publications such as National Geographic, Newsweek, Time, Der Spiegel, FT Magazine, Vanity Fair Italy, The Sunday Times Magazine and Internazionale.
