Andrew Hogarth is a native of Scotland, long time resident of Australia and a world traveller and storyteller. During the early 1970’s he trained in the field of graphic reproduction at the Napier College of Science and Technology in Edinburgh successfully completing practical and theoretical exams leading to the award and membership of the London Institute City and Guilds for Graphic Reproduction. Hogarth’s interest in Native American culture was ignited early in his youth and led him to travel some 200,000 miles across the Great Plains region of the USA over a thirty-two year period. His extensive fieldwork has resulted in three photographic collections and the publication of six independent books as a sole trader under the banner of Andrew Hogarth Publishing. In 1994, Hogarth’s photographic collection Native Lands debuted in Sydney, Australia. The same year Hogarth left full time employment to establish his work in the USA. Native Lands made its American debut in 1996 with a showing at the Pioneer Memorial Museum, Wyoming and later that year at the nationally acclaimed Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival. In 1997 Native Lands exhibited at the Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum in Buffalo, Wyoming. In April 1998 Hogarth’s third photographic collection Powwow: Native American Celebration was one of fourteen art forms selected worldwide for a three year national tour of North America by non for profit Missouri based touring company Exhibits USA. The tour opened at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee in late 2000. Other prominent museums that hosted Powwow from 2000-2003 included the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and the Sam Houston Memorial Museum in Huntsville, Texas. Some of Hogarth’s earliest photographs appear in the 1986 Custer Battlefield Greasy Grass Magazine while his image of Yakima-Cree-Umatilla Raymond Cree was published on the front cover of Indian Country Today in 1996. In April 2003 Hogarth’s life story featured in the Australian Sun Herald Sunday Life Magazine. In July 2008 Hogarth exhibited his twenty-five year retrospective Great Plains: Images of Native America 1981-2006 as part of The Healing Arts Program at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, Australia. Hogarth’s collaboration with Florida artist Denny Karchner throughout 2011-2013 resulted in paintings of three images, that of Lakota Jay Eagle, Cheyenne Danny Reyes and Lakota Jack Little. In 2013 Hogarth’s travels and images featured in and on the cover of the highly respected Australian Journey Magazine and he was invited to speak at the inaugural Newcastle Writers Festival in Australia that same year. His collaboration with musician Karl Broadie in 2013 saw his work selected as the cover photograph for Broadie’s fifth album A-Side, B-Side, Seaside. In moving to digital photography in 2008 Hogarth’s recent collection of photographs Native America: Dinetah to the Greasy Grass 2008-2013 debuted in Australia in early 2014 for a second time as part of St. Vincent’s Hospital’s Healing Arts Program. In August, 2018 Hogarth and Australian singer/songwriter Chris Fisher released their Great Plains Volume II music album and also reissued the original album Great Plains Volume I from 2000-2001. Both albums highlight Hogarth’s Indian Wars 1854-1890 lyrical storytelling over the sixteen song Great Plains project. In 2019 Hogarth headed to the Mexican Yucatán Peninsula to visit Mayan archaeological sites at Mayapan, Ek Balam, Uxmal, Chichen Itza and Kabah and spend time with the local Mayan people. In 2021 Hogarth collaborated with Indigenous screenwriter Josephine Pula Bezzina on their screenplay “Sacred Arrows” developed also in collaboration with the late Cheyenne Peace Chief & Tribal Historian John L. Sipes Jr. In April, 2024 Hogarth headed to Canada and Alaska. The trip included visiting a pristine glacier in Alaska and photographing the Indigenous totem poles in Ketchikan, Prince Rupert, Stanley Park and Capilano Suspension Bridge Park. Throughout the last forty-four years Hogarth has visited with and photographed many people and places from the ordinary to the extraordinary and learnt much from the life and history of the people as well as the beauty and often harsh reality of the landscape. His time spent documenting aspects of Indigenous and western life particularly portraiture on the American Great Plains and Mexican Yucatán Peninsula throughout the latter part of the twentieth century and early this century provide a brief glimpse into a rich and complex world and a visual narrative in the tradition of renowned photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis 1898-1928. Hogarth’s work contributes significantly to the somewhat limited visual record of this period and his experience as exemplified through his photography confirms that despite almost overwhelming odds at its heart the Indigenous peoples of Planet Earth are still very much alive and prospering in the twenty-first century.