Andre D. Wagner

lighthouse

[Andre D. Wagner @photoDre]

@eelisssa damn, i felt the same way when it arrived ✨

[Andre D. Wagner @photoDre]

…the camera isn’t an escape. it’s like pressing your hand against the surface of reality and feeling it press back

[Andre D. Wagner @photoDre]

@naomicarre 🤷🏾‍♂️

[Andre D. Wagner @photoDre]

you can be laughing while grieving. you can be falling apart and waking up at the same time. that level of paradox is beauty in motion..

[Andre D. Wagner @photoDre]

sometimes the bloom takes so long you forget you even planted the seed — and then one day it’s just there, wide open, like it had been waiting for you the whole time

[Andre D. Wagner @photoDre]

softness is not weakness, it is a frequency that holds miracles.

[Andre D. Wagner @photoDre]

@L_foxx 🤣

[Andre D. Wagner @photoDre]

@photobram glad it resonates, Richard

[Andre D. Wagner @photoDre]

silence can roar, softness can split stone, the Black breath and body-once cornered by survival, can open so wide that it holds universes without fracture.

[Andre D. Wagner @photoDre]

True teachers don’t make you dependent; they point you back to your own breath.

[Andre D. Wagner @photoDre]

The ache about being a Black street photographer? That is real

Not just artistic tension. It’s structural grief

How do you fail enough to discover brilliance, when you’re not given the luxury of failure?

How do you hold a lens to the world
when said world refuses to hold you?

[Andre D. Wagner @photoDre]

There is an emptiness that also means fullness.

[Andre D. Wagner @photoDre]

Sometimes the cocoon doesn’t look like much —but the wings were forming the whole time.

[Andre D. Wagner @photoDre]

@mareikelike amen

[Andre D. Wagner @photoDre]

are you willing to remain a student even as you teach?

[Andre D. Wagner @photoDre]

we belong where we allow ourselves to belong ✨

[Andre D. Wagner @photoDre]

perception shapes your reality more than facts ever will

[Andre D. Wagner @photoDre]

@simsgazette thanks for the love

[Andre D. Wagner @photoDre]

@Malcjax crazy

[Andre D. Wagner @photoDre]

intentions are the blessings that already exist