Bradley Peters
"Over the past two decades," Peters writes, "there has been an accelerated shift in the public's relationship to photography. The notion that a photograph is the truth has been replaced with a predisposition of skepticism and saturated disbelief that has permeated into the most basic aspects of our lives. There is a direct correlation to the perceived erosion of photographic truth and a bubbling up hunger for the authentic experience. This is a defining time for America. It's an atmosphere of desperation, alienation, anxiety, delusion, and fringe politics. The nation is hyperpolarized and over-the-top theatrics are the norm. I am in search of the visual manifestation of these ideas.... I am investigating how this period is affecting gesture, interaction, and coping in America by using the language of 'staged color narrative photography' and marrying it with flash lighting to subvert from within the tradition. My desire it to let life back into the images and favor the photographic over the painterly."
Bradley Peters received his MFA in Photography from the Yale University School of Art and his BA in Art and Psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His work is part of many public and private collections internationally and has been …
"Over the past two decades," Peters writes, "there has been an accelerated shift in the public's relationship to photography. The notion that a photograph is the truth has been replaced with a predisposition of skepticism and saturated disbelief that has permeated into the most basic aspects of our lives. There is a direct correlation to the perceived erosion of photographic truth and a bubbling up hunger for the authentic experience. This is a defining time for America. It's an atmosphere of desperation, alienation, anxiety, delusion, and fringe politics. The nation is hyperpolarized and over-the-top theatrics are the norm. I am in search of the visual manifestation of these ideas.... I am investigating how this period is affecting gesture, interaction, and coping in America by using the language of 'staged color narrative photography' and marrying it with flash lighting to subvert from within the tradition. My desire it to let life back into the images and favor the photographic over the painterly."
Bradley Peters received his MFA in Photography from the Yale University School of Art and his BA in Art and Psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His work is part of many public and private collections internationally and has been included in numerous publications on the subject of photography, most notably, Image Makers, Image Takers: The Essential Guide to Photography by Those in the Know, by Anne-Celine Jaeger. He is the 2008 recipient of the Richard Benson Prize for Excellence in Photography and his photographs were the subject of a recent solo show at Bard College at Simon’s Rock. His teaching resume includes Yale University, Southeast Community College, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Concordia University. Some of his clients include, Bloomberg Businessweek Magazine, State Farm Insurance, Whole Foods, and Le Quartier Baking Company.
Courtesy of the artist's website.
