Bylot Island – Entrance to Northwest Passage. Photo: Wes Terryberry

WILL RICHARD

Will’s images record scenes from his home state of Maine to eastern Canada just short of the North Pole, as well as to Antarctica. His photographs include landscapes, villages and portraits of villagers, flora and fauna, aerials.  Currently, he is working on a book The Far Northeast, recently produced a State of Maine calendar for the Department of Conservation.  Ongoing activities include photographer for the International Appalachian Trail (8 years) and for the Smithsonian Institution’s Gateways Project (4 years). In 2004, his field time included a May through June trip to Iceland and Greenland with his wife, Lindsay.

He is a Registered Maine Guide with a PhD in Geography and an MA in Anthropology and served with the US Marine Corps.  His work has been shown at LL Bean, Bates and Bowdoin Colleges, Maine Audubon,  Québec / Labrador Foundation, Maine State House, Chewonki Foundation, Newburyport Art Association,  Chocolate Church,  and through the Smithsonian Institution’s Arctic Studies Center. In summer 2005, he will be returning to the Arctic and will later in the year co-leading a trip to coastal Labrador.  In the spring of 2005, his work will be presented at the Smithsonian Institution at a Greenland Symposium.

Be sure to visit Will's website at http://www.wrichphoto.com

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 Please join us on December 10th from 5-7pm at Casco Bay Frames to meet Will Richard and view 14 of his signature pieces framed and available for purchase.

An ancient Greek would have recognized in him a man who, temporarily at  least, has come within appreciable distance of ‘arête’, the virtue of being suited to what one is doing and consequently approaching  a state of goodness and inner peace – according to Aristotle, the only prize worth having (“Nansen” by Roland Huntford. London: Abacus. 2001, p. 530).