A member of the generation that positioned photography as an artistic genre in Mexico. From 1977 to 2003, Andrade worked exclusively in black and white, developing an extensive project about Mexico City. Since 2003, she has transitioned to color photographs taken with digital cameras and has extended her projects to other countries, in cities such as Paris, Delhi, Varanasi, and New York, among others. Andrade is a member of the National System of Creators.

Yolanda Andrade is a documentary photographer with a recognized national and international trajectory, whose language is based on urban subjectivity and the expressive power of the collective imagination. In her work, time stops; frozen images that vibrate with intense color, color that has been carefully transferred in the printing process. Cities are intertwined and realities confronted.

Collections · Her work is found in the collections of various museums and institutions, some of which include: Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, N.Y; California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico, D. F; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China; Museum of Modern Art, INBA, Mexico, D.F .; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; El Barrio Museum, New York, N. Y, and Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, among others.

Publications · Andrade has published several books: Los velos transparentes, las transparencias veladas (1988), Pasión Mexicana (2002), Visiones paralelas y A través del cristal (2009), and Las Vegas: artificio y neón (2013).