Drew Dzurko is a photographic artist from the suburbs of Chicago whose work examines instability within contemporary social and physical landscapes. His current MFA thesis project focuses on photographing construction zones and decaying infrastructure, then printing, cutting, rearranging, and re-scanning these fragments to create disjointed compositions that question ideas of permanence and progress. Through systematic editing processes and materially driven experimentation, his images construct spatially uncertain environments that encourage viewers to reconsider what appears fixed in the built world. His practice engages themes of transformation, erosion, and the tension between collapse and renewal, using photographic processes as both a conceptual and formal framework.

In addition to his studio practice, Drew is committed to teaching photography at the college level, where he aims to support emerging artists in developing technical fluency, critical awareness, and individual visual language. His work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions including shows at the Texas Photographic Society, Backspace Gallery, the Ellwood House Museum, the Annette & Jerry Johns Gallery, and 4th Street Gallery in DeKalb, Illinois. He has also been published in Hand Magazine: Issue 39 and holds a Guinness World Record with classmates for the World’s Largest Paper Snowflake. Drew participated in the NIU photography department’s Belonging in STEM initiative, which culminated in the 2023 exhibition Belonging in STEAM: Create and Discover at the Annette & Jerry Johns Gallery