Drew Burdick ’03 uses his photography to “help bridge the relationship between people and place.” He recently became director of photography /cinematography for Seanchai Productions, a documentary film company based in Portland, OR. “Story telling is our passion.  We strive to cover local and global issues that are environmentally and socially pressing in nature,” says Drew. He is also working toward a master’s degree that will combine ecological evolution, environmental science and photography.

A more inclusive collection of his work can be viewed at his self-designed Web site, www.andrewburdickphotography.com. Drew’s photographs were featured during the Sherrill Summer Art Series in Sherrill, NY, for a very successful month-long exhibition.  Drew’s photographs will be on exhibition at the Westcott Art Center in Syracuse, NY, during January 2007. 

Following his college graduation with a degree in English, Drew lived in Europe and North Africa for about six months. He traveled and worked on a remote organic farm in the mountains of Southern Spain.  When he returned to the United States he worked as the land steward at the Center for Whole Communities, an organic farm and education center in Vermont. 

He then joined his friends in the blues and roots band Grace Potter and the Nocturnals (Matt Burr ’99, Grace Potter, Kristen Monsell ’04) as tour manager and photographer, logging more than 35,000 road miles and driving coast-to-coast four times.  While on tour, the band performed with such musical acts as blues legend Taj Mahal, The Dave Matthews Band, Trey Anastasio (Phish), the North Mississippi All-Stars, and Robert Cray. 

His photographs have been used for album graphics, posters, web designs, and office and home decoration, and have appeared in literary magazines and newspapers across the country.  Burdick has recently published a book of photography, There and Back Again: across the Country with Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.  He also co-directed a Vermont Public Television live video recording of Grace Potter and the Nocturnals that has subsequently been released on DVD.