I am currently the staff photographer at Montclair State University in Montclair, NJ. I also work for a variety of clients on a freelance basis shooting products, architecture, interiors, portraits, and all types of events. Before joining the staff at Montclair State, I made images for corporate annual reports, advertising, magazines, text book publishers and public relations. I was a staff newspaper photographer for 3 years in NJ and freelanced for the NY Times for about 5 years.
I have been heavily involved with digital imaging since 1996. However with a long background in traditional film workflow, my goal with digital is to keep it looking film like. For clients I use digital capture only, and for personal work I shoot film, which I scan directly from to make digital C-prints.
PROJECTS, EXHIBITIONS, FEATURES AND PUBLICATIONS
2009
Mike Peters on Conscientious, Joerg Colberg's weblog about fine-art photography (and more).
Mike Peters: What Was He Thinking?
On B - Rumblings From The Photographic Hinterlands by Blake Andrews on Blogspot.
2008
Nicaragua. This is a series of photographs resulting from a two week trip to Nicaragua were I was documenting a group of students who were on a Witness for Peace delegation. Two bodies of work were produced, one featuring village life in El Regadillo, and the other in the more urban settings of Managua and Grenada. Images from each have been published on the MSU web site and magazine.
The Pierro Gallery, South Orange,
New Jersey from April 6 - May 25
"Is it possible to make a photograph of New Jersey regardless of where you are in the world?" Various photos taken in Paterson and Ridgefield Park, NJ.
Brooklyn Museum: Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition
ConeyIsland_videoman, 2007
Click! is a photography exhibition that invites Brooklyn Museum's visitors, the online community, and the general public to participate in the exhibition process. Taking its inspiration from the critically acclaimed book The Wisdom of Crowds, in which New Yorker business and financial columnist James Surowiecki asserts that a diverse crowd is often wiser at making decisions than expert individuals, Click! explores whether Surowiecki's premise can be applied to the visual arts is a diverse crowd just as wise at evaluating art as the trained experts?
Caldwell Library:
Times Square Gym photos from 1992. Solo exhibition, December, 2008.
2007
Coney Island Summer.
Invited Guest: Mike Peters, Coney Island 2007
On the F Blog, by Gruppo F
Comments, Kalvar, PDFs, Peters, Koudelka-tube
On the 2 point 8 blog by Michael David Murphy
Street Photography, capturing whatever life has to offer, usually within 25 miles of my front door. This is an ongoing project started in 2003.
Exhibitions:
The Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ, solo exhibition: April - May 2007
2006
Street Photography.
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK. Crosswalks: Contemporary Street Photography, group exhibit.
I AM: Portraits of people in an environment of their choosing, part 2. Solo exhibit, Life Hall, Montclair State University.
2004
Street Photography.
Invited guest at the Photographic Salon of the Polish-American Photographic Club at the Consulate General of The Republic of Poland, NYC.
2003
I AM: Portraits of people in an environment of their choosing, part 1. Solo exhibit, Life Hall, Montclair State University.
1980 - 2000
Street Portraits: A series of large format portraits of people that I have met while walking around Kearny and Harrison NJ, and NYC.
1999 - 2000
The Hilltop: Photographs of an Essex County, NJ psychiatric hospital site.
Exhibited:
July - August 2000 at Gallery 214, Montclair, NJ, Solo Exhibition.
April - May 2001 at Broadway Gallery, Passaic County Community College, Paterson, NJ. Solo Exhibition.
1992
Times Square Gym. Boxing gym on 42nd Street and Broadway in NYC.
Democratic Convention From Across 8th Ave, NYC.
1991
Stella Wright Homes. Scenes from a public housing project in Newark, NJ.
1988
The Guardian Angels of Newark and Jersey City, NJ. Published in the Jersey Journal.
1986
Twilight of a Tradition. Photos of a dairy farming family in Sussex County, NJ.
Rudolph Buenz. Stained glass artist, Newton, NJ.
Both published: NJ Herald.
1985
Michael Abboud. Teenager and his family coping with the effects of muscular dystrophy, Frankford, NJ.
Published: NJ Herald.
1984
George Quigley. 83 yr. old bicycle repairman, Manville, NJ.
Chris the Greek. Local tattoo artist, Manville, NJ.
Both published in the Somerset Messenger-Gazette.
1983
Market Street Mission. Alcohol and substance abuse half-way house, Morristown, NJ.
1981
Sidewalk Santa. Volunteers of America. NYC.
1980
Tug Boat. A life on the water in New York Harbor.
1979
St. Gennaro Festival. Little Italy, NYC.
1978
Rush Hour. Photographs on the NY/NJ PATH trains.
Exhibited: March 1979 at The Photographers Guild, Kearny, NJ.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2000 - Staff Photographer: Montclair State University.
Responsible for providing photography for all campus wide publications, advertising,
public relations and Web use. Examples of my work can be seen here:
http://www.montclair.edu/
1987 - Freelance Photographer
Corporate, editorial and advertising photography for various clients
1985 - 87 Staff Photographer: The New Jersey Herald, Newton, NJ.
1983 - 85 Staff Photographer: The Somerset Messenger-Gazette, Somerville, NJ.
1979 - 83 Freelance Photographer and Photographers Assistant.
1979 Staff Photographer: Tiffany & Co., NYC.
EDUCATION
1977 - 79 Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC. AAS, Photography.