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Andreas Rentsch received a B.F.A. from Les Ecoles d’Arts Appliqués in Vevey, Switzerland, and an M.F.A. in Studio Art from Stony Brook University. He spent the first 18 years of his life on a prison compound where his father was the warden and where daily interactions with convicts were common. These visual and real-life experiences nurtured a sense of empathy in him for the human condition that has been a guiding force in his life as well as his work. Andreas Rentsch’s work has been exhibited worldwide, including a solo exhibition at the Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland, and is in many museum collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, the Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland, the Musée de la Photographie in Charleroi, Belgium, the Museet for Fotokunst in Odense, Denmark, the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, NY, the Swiss Foundation of Photography, and the Polaroid Collection. He is a recipient of two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships and two grants from the Polaroid Corporation. The photography magazine Aperture published one of his portfolios. In addition, numerous books and magazines have published his work, including “The Polaroid Project,” a book published as part of a world-wide nine-museum exhibition of artists who have used Polaroid film in their work. He taught at the International Center of Photography, Stony Brook University, and St. John's University. He is currently an Associate Professor of Photography at Lycoming College.