Synchronicity emerged from an unexpected impulse. “I kept trying to photograph these wildflowers on my phone, and they never worked,” says Andrew Macpherson. “Then one day I felt an overwhelming urge to buy a real camera.” What followed was the first of many uncanny alignments: a deeply discounted point-and-shoot camera that would come to define the visual language of the project.

Shot across Los Angeles and the American Southwest—from daily hikes to long-distance road trips—the series evolved into a visual diary shaped by synchronistic timing. Portraits of resilience in the face of an ever-changing climate.

“The camera saw flowers in a way I hadn’t before,” Macpherson notes. “It felt like a collision between beauty and something more raw—almost cinematic.” With a subtle nod to the stark immediacy of Weegee and the stylized surrealism of Guy Bourdin, the images transform fleeting blooms into vivid, otherworldly encounters

 “In a time that feels increasingly chaotic, I wanted to focus on something fleeting but grounding,” says Macpherson. “These flowers might last a day or a season—but in that moment, they’re everything.” 

Balancing intimacy with expansiveness, Synchronicity captures the resilience and quiet spectacle of flora thriving in arid landscapes both urban and rural—a meditation on beauty, impermanence, and the unexpected connections that shape how we see and experience our environment.

Chasing Ansel Adams
Andrew Macpherson, photographer/artist, was born in London and currently resides in Los Angeles, California. His award- winning career has spanned more than thirty years, traveling the globe photographing many of the world’s most cerebrated and iconic musicians, models, actors and designers. He has created multiple bodies of personal work of subjects that have inspired and fascinated him throughout his professional career.

By his mid-twenties he was a regular contributor to magazines such as Rolling Stone, The Face, Elle, Bazaar and Vogue. He became a master at darkroom printing however the carbon and chemical footprint of film’s manufacture, transport, processing and printing created a great deal of inner conflict as both an artist and life long environmentalist. He embraced the digital revolution in the early nineties, which led him having the first digitally created front cover of a fashion magazine in 1991 for Elle. As he envisioned, digital photography as a medium is now one of the most exciting art forms of the 21st century. Andrew’s vision and technical expertise make him one of the most compelling contemporary American photographers. This was his first solo photography exhibit.