The transportive photographs of Andrew Charles Price of Bethlehem achieve an elegant balance between refinement and the ever-unfolding surprises of the wild. Whether he shoots an evasive insect walking on water or a massive landscape crowned with a rainbow, Price instinctively chooses the most compelling geometry for each piece. Although his professional experience is but an arctic summer compared to veteran photographers, the quality of his work rivals celebrated artists working at the height of their power. Well before entering the third decade of his life, he has roundly displayed his boundless artistic potential.
Since childhood, he carried a camera into diverse and challenging locations to create a visual diary of both hidden and commanding phenomena. “One of my greatest loves is being outdoors,” he joyfully states. “Nature, trees, climbing mountains, being outside—I like the freedom and the wildness!”
Price enjoys awakening in the unknown, bathed in new light among kindred heartbeats in the brush, river and sky. “I would rather be lost in the middle of any wilderness than be lost in the middle of any city,” he enthuses. His endowment as an artist and an explorer continues to propel him into novel experiences that consistently yield awesome art. He continues, “The camera allows me to get out there without needing to do back flips off a cliff or being in extremely risky situations.” Those who follow his work are thankful for his productive restlessness.
When he was in college studying biology, he often surfed the Web, found affordable plane tickets to somewhere on Earth and thrust himself and his gear into serial adventures.
Consistently, a principle of renewal flows from the work produced on these trips.
Price is pressing on to the next destination, distilling the infinite vocabulary of nature into irresistible pictures that stir wanderlust in the viewer. Although I have lived in and visited several of the places depicted, Price's arrested images reveal fresh facets of even the most familiar frontiers. Alive in their stillness, sublimely rugged in their declaration of adventure and discovery, his marvelous visual journeys awaken the poet and explorer in us all.
