Andrew Hogarth was born in 1951 in Edinburgh, Scotland. As a young man he trained in the field of graphic reproduction at Napier College of Science and Technology in Scotland. During the early 1970’s he successfully completed practical and theoretical exams leading to the award and membership of the London Institute City and Guilds for Graphic Reproduction. A much sought after certificate internationally, this allowed Hogarth to further his love of travel.

Hogarth emigrated to Sydney, Australia in 1974. During the last twenty-seven years he has divided his time between Australia, Britain and the United States of America as well as travelling extensively throughout the Pacific and South-East Asia. He calls Australia home and believes it is one of the few countries in the world that still has a true sense of individual freedom.

Hogarth’s interest in Native American culture began many years ago at the Saturday matinees in the motion picture houses of Edinburgh. He has often commented that he “always wondered where those murdering Indians went after committing their deadly deeds.” He later discovered the back-lots of the Hollywood movie studios.

In 1981 he decided to find Native America for himself. His first trip yielded little satisfaction, being confined to a tour company timetable and a few token Indians. Undeterred by his first experience, Hogarth has subsequently travelled 150,000 miles throughout the Great Plains and Southwest region of the United States of America, the majority of it on small country roads and quite a few miles on dirt roads!

This extensive fieldwork has resulted in three photographic collections: Native Lands: The West of the American Indian; Great Plains: The American West and Powwow: Native American Celebration and the publication of six books: Light At The End Of The Tunnel, The Great Plains Revisited, Lakota Spirit, Battlefields Monuments and Markers, Native Lands and Cheyenne Hole.

A number of photographs from Hogarth’s extensive collection have been published. His work appears in the 1986 Custer Battlefield National Monument annual colour magazine Greasy Grass and also on the covers of the Fort Phil Kearny/Bozeman Trail Association annual magazine and Bozeman Trail Historical Map of Wyoming. In 1990, Hogarth was a recipient of the Fort Phil Kearny Bozeman Trail Spur Club Award for his photographic contributions to the association.

In 1996 Hogarth’s image of Umitilla-Cree-Yakima Raymond Cree was published nationally in the United States of America by Indian Country Today. In 1997, Hogarth donated his Native Lands and Battlefields, Monuments & Markers photographic framed collections from the United States of America museum showings to Tribal Historian Chief John Sipes and the traditional Cheyenne people of Oklahoma.

Hogarth’s work has also featured extensively in magazine and newspaper print, radio, national in-flight video in Australia, and television in both Australia and the United States of America. In 1998 Exhibits USA picked Hogarth’s Powwow: Native American Celebration photographic collection for a three year national tour of the United States of America. The tour opened in October, 2000 at the Martin Luther KIng National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee.