Andrew Borowiec has been teaching photography at the University of Akron since 1984. He served as Director of the School of Art from 1990-1995. For the past two decades, he has been making photographs of the social landscape of Middle America, with a particular interest in factory towns. His book on the landscape of the Ohio River Valley, Along the Ohio, was published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 2000. He recently completed a book of photographs on the industrial landscape of the Gulf Coast, which will be published by the Center for American Places. Borowiec's work has been widely exhibited and is represented in numerous collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Canadian Center for Architecture, the Chicago Art Institute, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Hallmark Collection, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the Library of Congress. Among the many awards he has received are grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998.