Since 2010, The Chicago Urban Art Society (CUAS) and the Chicago Lowrider Preservation Fund have coordinated the Slow and Low Community Lowrider Festival. The lowriding scene is diverse with many different cultures, vehicle makes and visual styles.

We travel the city each day - to and from work, home, school, errands. By train or by bus we enter the swell of humanity, pack ourselves in with strangers, and hold on tight. For me, the experience of being alone in a crowd is quintessential to modern life. We all struggle to find both a connection with others (and ourselves) and to protect our idea of who we are in the world. In this series, I am documenting moments of connection - where we let our guard down, our minds wander, revealing a fragment of our inner life and humanity. This is an ongoing series.

Photographs made close to home in Chicago.

As seen in Photo District News. http://www.pdnonline.com/emergingphotographer/Humor-Photo-Contest--7520.shtml

Selected work from private events and ceremonies. A documentary photographer for over 20 years, Andrew Steiner's work has been featured in publications like PDN Online and Burn. Magazine as well as New City Chicago and Crain's publications. Andrew approaches weddings and private events with a documentary eye. From the preparation to the ceremony and reception, Andrew works to convey the authentic story of your wedding day. Andrew has extensive experience in both digital and film, black and white and color. (773) 793-4487 to reserve your date! Look for his one-man show coming up this Summer 2017 at Rangefinder Gallery, in the heart of Chicago's River North gallery district

Originally built to house steel workers in 1917, today just 25% of the homes in Marktown are occupied. Remaining houses are abandoned or have been bought and demolished by BP. The BP Whiting refinery looming over Marktown and surrounding areas offers residents a “fair” market value for properties - around $30,000 or less. To families that have lived here their whole lives and are deeply connected to their communities this bargain of necessity does them no favors. Throughout East Chicago, an eerie sense abandonment hangs in the air like the billowing clouds expelled from the refinery itself. Anywhere you walk in downtown East Chicago, the BP refinery is in view. The smell of oil sticks to you on a hot summer day. Most stores are boarded up or are long gone. Tracks from revved-up u-turns scar the empty parking lots. Still, within this struggling urban landscape some spaces are still bustling. The many churches found in East Chicago are full on Sundays. Here is where people have a place and a purpose. The New Mission Of Jesus Christ Church in East Chicago provides support and a sense of community. In addition to their religious services, The New Mission also runs a community kitchen to assist neighbors who have fallen on hard times. Marktown has escaped destruction twice, in the 1950’s and the 1970’s, before it earned its historic landmark status. There was even a Marktown Revitalization Plan published in 2008. Less than a decade later, as the Mayor of East Chicago offers residents incentives to move elsewhere, it looks as if the third time it will not be so lucky.