Andy Cross has been a staff photographer at The Denver Post since 1997. He grew up in Denver and studied photojournalism at both the Colorado Institute of Art and Metropolitan State College of Denver (Now Metropolitan State University of Denver).
In addition to his daily assignments, Andy has photographed some of the biggest news events in Colorado over the last 25 years, including the Columbine and Aurora mass shootings, forest fires, flooding, the 2008 Democratic National Convention, two Super Bowls, the World Series and the Stanley Cup. He has also worked internationally, covering the War on Terror in Somalia and Sudan in 2002, and the Iraq war in 2003.
