Andrew Hersey

Andrew Hersey is a photographer, writer, and painter who lives with his girlfriend and a blind dog in Charlottesville, Virginia. He has self-published a collection of photographs and stories called Eleven Snows and is working on a second book. He took this month’s cover photo last May at Lake Drummond in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge near Suffolk, Virginia. Currently at 112,000 acres, the swamp lost nearly 90 percent of its original size to human encroachment before being designated a refuge in 1974.