OH, MANN

Adventure and ocean photographer Andy Mann is putting the farthest reaches of Earth on the map with his jaw-dropping images...

Text by KEITH GORDON

At its best, photography allows the artist to transport his audience to wherever he can carry his camera. Some destinations are so remote, or so dangerous, that photography is perhaps the only medium through which others can learn about those places and experience them vicariously. This is why the world needs people like Andy Mann. Scratch that: The world needs Andy Mann. If some people go to extremes to get the perfect shot, Mann seems to go beyond them. Growing up in rural Virginia, the 40-year-old Mann didn’t find his calling until 2003, when he moved to Colorado and discovered rock climbing. He began hanging out with now-famous adventure photographers like Keith Ladzinski and Cory Richards, and the group sustained its mountain-based habits by selling photos to niche magazines, and eventually to…

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MAXIM New Zealand (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2022

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