About

Andréanna Seymore  has been in the business of telling stories for 25 years, first starting as an editorial photographer. Pitching photography stories for magazines enabled her to develop and focus on her interest, Americana subcultures and communities outside the socially accepted norm. Her first break was walking into the offices of The New York Times Magazine and showing her work about the under-appreciated waterboy of a small town football team that later ran in The New York Times section, What They Were Thinking. Andréanna contributed to that section for many years along with other assignments.

“Photography has given me the license to enter worlds not accessible to many people. It is a privilege I do not take for granted. It has enabled me to discover and show people the richness of everyday life.”  

Andréanna has photographed families struggling with homelessness; female athletes in alternative sports, from Luchadoras to roller derby; celebrities; and global advertising campaigns. It has been a natural transition from photographer to producer to directing commercial campaigns to executive producer & co-creator of the Netflix docuseries Merpeople.

Merpeople began as a follow up book project on subcultures; the first book being about the subculture of roller derby. Her monograph Scars and Stripes: The Culture of Modern Roller Derby was published by Schiffer Books. However, Andreanna quickly realized this was not a book but a documentary. Calling her roller derby comrade Rolland Ballester (producer of Halston), they both realized this vibrant community has similar characteristics to the roller derby community and thus she began diving into the world of Mers.

Andréanna was first featured in the book 25 Under 25: Up and Coming American Photographers, (cover and interior) published in 2003 by Powerhouse with the foreword written by her mentor, director/photographer Lauren Greenfield.  Images from Andreanna’s book, Scars and Stripes: The Culture of Modern Roller Derby were acquired by The Smithsonian National Museum of American History in the Sport History Collections of the Division of Culture and Arts.

Andréanna played roller derby for over ten years, but since “retiring” (maybe) has gone back to punishing her knees and plantar fascia with her first love, basketball, where she competes with women half her age. Like most of her books and films projects she “dives” into learning a new skill in order to get the shot. With roller derby she had to learn how to skate, now she is swimming with the Merpeople, adding “almost” scuba certification to that list.

Andréanna is a Hampton Bays & New York City native living at the beach with her family of superheroes.