about
Andrew Paul Smith is a photojournalist, educator and researcher who has spent over three decades documenting Jamaica's natural and cultural heritage. He is a Lecturer and Programme Director of the B.A. Communication Arts & Technology degree at the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech, Jamaica). He is a PhD Candidate at UTech, Jamaica where he is researching the use of photography as a tool for heritage education. He possesses a M.A. Photography from the University of Bolton and a B.Sc. in Geography from the University of the West Indies.
Exhibitions that he has participated in include:
• 2011 "In Family Unity - Unity of the World" exhibition. Moscow, Russia.
• 2020 and 2009 School of the Visual Arts Faculty Show at the Edna Manley College of the Visual & Performing Arts. Kingston, Jamaica.
• 2002/03 "Liquid Light" photography exchange. Jamaica and the East Midlands, UK.
• 2002 group exhibition, "Private Thought, Public Spaces" at the Mutual Gallery, Jamaica.
• 2001 Commonwealth Photographic Competition and Exhibition.
Smith is a former freelance photographer for Reuters and Corbis/Demotix in Jamaica and was Photography Editor at The Gleaner newspaper. He also a three-term past president of the Photography Club of Jamaica.
