Andrea Modica  Andrea Modica (born 1960) is an American photographer and professor of photography at Drexel University. Modica is known for portrait photography and for her use of platinum printing, created using an 8"x10" large format camera. Modica was born in Brooklyn, New York. She earned her BFA in Visual Arts and Art History from State University of New York College (SUNY) at Purchase, Purchase, NY in 1982, and earned her MFA in Photography from Yale University in 1985. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in many collections, such as The Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Modica has received numerous grants including a Guggenheim Arts Fellowship in 1994 and a Fulbright-Hays Research Grant in 1990. Modica has been published in "Newsweek", "Harper's", "The New York Times Magazine", and other magazines, and she is the author of many monographs, including "Treadwell" (Chronicle Books, 1996) and "Barbara" (Nazraeli Press, 2002). Modica taught photography at the State University of New York – Oneonta for thirteen years, and has also taught at Princeton University, Parsons School of Design, the State University of New York College at Purchase, and Colorado College. She is currently a professor of photography at Drexel University. Modica's most known work is Treadwell. From 1986 to 2001, she staged and photographed a young girl named Barbara and her family in upstate New York with an 8x10 view camera, following the family from farmhouse to farmhouse in the town of Treadwell. Chronicle Books published the work in book form in 1996. She continued to photograph Barbara until her death in 2001 from childhood diabetes. The work from the later period of Barbara's life was published by Nazraeli Press in 2002. As We Wait is collection of previously unpublished portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and horses curated by Larry Fink. Even before starting the series "Best Friends," Modica had been photographing students at a high school in Connecticut, and she noticed that a friend was often present in the background of the photoshoots. She started photographing friends together in other high schools in Philadelphia and Modena, Italy.