[2] While living in Rochester, she received the Guggenheim fellowship to create a photographic project about Mexico City, which would later be known as the Mexican Passion.

Since she started working freelance, there was a moment where she began teaching the art of still photography at different schools to help her financial with the various projects she was looking into.

[citation needed] The first couple of years as an independent photographer she spent her time specializing in black and white still photography.

Along with other grants that she earned, it helped her fund her collections among many different countries such as Mexico, United States, and Europe.

Her black and white photos targeted more people while color photographs displayed more symbolic objects.

Through her work, highlights how different groups of people come together as a united front but captured in a sense of celebration of identity.

[citation needed] The majority of Andrade's work is exhibited in Mexico, the United States, and Europe.

Collection locations [9] Black and White Photography: In this book, Andrade tried to capture the history taken of the streets of Mexico.

These black and white photographs call on the culture that is found when roaming through the streets of Mexico City.

She depicts this distinction with the people of Mexico of whose identity has been covered up and blended to meet up with societal standards.

It is one of the books that took her the longest to complete because it was a personal project of hers to capture the unique culture shown today.

She had no interest in mind to capture the casino life but rather focus on what this city had created for its visitors which was to offer and alternative world [14]