Andrew Garn is a photographer and curator who lives in New York City.

Andrew graduated of SUNY New Paltz, and spent time as an undergrad photographing Newburgh's unique architecture in the late 1970s. In late 2004, after publishing half a dozen books of photography on everything from subways to houseboats, and shooting on assignment for the New York Times Magazine, Forbes, Newsweek, and other publications, Garn returned to Newburgh to open PhotoNewburgh, a gallery dedicated to photography.

In 2000, Garn traveled to Russia to photograph the massive Magnitogorsk industrial city in the Ural mountains. The Magnitogorsk ("Metal City") plant stretches for over 13 miles and contains hundreds of structures.

These buildings include blast furnaces, welding shops, soaking pits, and combination mills designed solely for the fabrication of steel products. By comparison, the now demolished US Steel plant in Pittsburgh covered only five contiguous miles. The sheer vastness of the Magnitogorsk plant is unparalleled throughout the world. The Magnitogorsk project was funded by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. This is the first publication of Garns Magnitogorsk photographs.

His work will be featured in the first Ural Industrial Biennale at the Ekaterinburg Gallery Of Modern Art in Ekaterinburg, September 8-21.

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