John Francis Peters

NEWS

1/23/2012 Happy New Year! I will be traveling to California from 1/28-2/5, San Francisco night of 1/29-1/31, LA 2/1-2/3, San Diego 2/4 and 2/5. I will be open for assignments along the way.

11/30/2011 Super happy to have my work from the Beyond Digital: Morocco project featured on TIME LightBox today! Also the images are live on my site now..

11/15/2011 Excited to have my series Interwoven from Oaxaca, MX in the next SlideLuck Berlin! Check it out if your in town..

11/10/2011 My new series called Insha'Allah from the Beyond Digital: Morocco project is live on the site.. more info to come.

I've also updated my music, portraits and style sections with new work and added some frames to the "Just A Dream" series on home foreclosure. And last but not least, I now have a Tumblr!

7/2/2011 (6/1/11-7/9/11) I will be traveling around Morocco, currently heading to Tangier.

5/8/2011 A short series of work I made at Ground Zero the day after Osama was found has been featured on photographer Jake Stangle's excellent blog called Too Much Chocolate. Check it!

4/16/2011 I will be participating in the WA Photography Auctionbenefiting Architecture for Humanity Japan tsunami relief effort, April 21, 2011 6-9pm at 25CPW Gallery, 25 Central Park West, NYC.

2/8/2011 Please take a look at this great project I'll be working on this June, Beyond Digital.. focuses on how creative adaptations of global digital technologies in Morocco are helping to transform youth culture and suggesting powerful alternatives to Western concepts of digital literacy.

12/13/2010 Its been up for a few days now but checkoutJust A Dreamfeatured on TIME.comas an audio slideshow.

11/2/2010 My series on foreclosure, Just A Dream, has been mentioned by Paul Reyes on the NYTsite and in an WNYC On The Media interview.

10/1/2010 I'm happy to be participating in this years American Diversity Project. If your able to help support this years workshop it would be greatly appreciated!

9/21/2010 Some new sections on the site..Check out: 700 Acres In Tennessee and Siempre Y Para Siempre under La Musica de Mexico..

7/23 - 8/1 2010 During these dates I will be shooting in Haiti, passing thru Port Au Prince then mainly in Deschapelles/Artibonite River Valley region. I will be working in the areas farming communities and available for assignments, Please note my Haiti cell on contact page.

1/18/2010 I have added a new section to the site with images from Haiti this past December. LIFE has also put up a gallery of the work on their site and I am very grateful they are willing to show this perspective of the earthquake tragedy. All my thoughts are with the Haitian people, this has been a tough week and I hope out of this terrible moment something positive may come. Please do what you can to help as they will need the international communities support for some time to come. Red Cross, Unicef, many more here for you to look through.

12/19/2009 I will be traveling around Haiti from the 19th -30th and available via email and local phone which will be updated once there.

11/3/2009 This is the final week to check out the Grand Champions Forever Group Show at Factory Fresh Gallery in which I have two prints from my series Guizhou, A Precious Land.

The curator John Breiner has also started a GCF group blog which will be updated with new events, info, shows of each artist.

11/3/2009 Another feature I shot for the Tripwire is up. About a month ago I got a few hours to hang with the UK band called The Horrors.

11/2/2009 I recently shot the Ganglians for the Tripwire online magazine.

10/23/2009 I have two prints from Guizhou, A Precious Land in the third installment of Grand Champions Forever Group show, at Factory Fresh Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. 10/23-11/7 2009. We had a huge turnout for the opening and the show has an incredible range of strong work in all mediums, curated by John Breiner.

10/13/2009 Please take a look at some of my images on the BBC website in an audio slideshow profile about hiphop fashion in NYC.

9/27/2009 New Style section added to the website from FADER fashion profiles and a few new frames in Just A Dream.

8/12/2009 I recently shot a feature profile on musician Theo Angell for theTripwire online magazine.

Tip Toe The Edge of Heaven has been updated with work from the California coast.

6/2/2009 Patriots has been updated with new images from this years Memorial Day.

5/8/2009 It’s been a minute since the last update but some bits to catch up on.

Just A Dream was mentioned by photographer M.Scott Brauer on dvafoto.com and theclick.us this week, which was great to see. I’m still chugging away at the project and updated it with a few new shots.

I was invited with Phil Bicker this week to review graduating students portfolios at Parsons The New School for Design. It was a wonderful experience to look over the work in that forum and I was pleased to see the emerging talent.

My essay Interwoven was profiled as a slideshow with music from Beirut on theFader.com.

3/27/2009 It was a fun, hot and super hectic SXSW this year down in good old Austin, TX. Did the full FADER Fort coverage again and some street work. Check out some slideshows on FADER website: DAY 3, DAY 4

3/2/2009 I just updated the site with some new projects, Just A Dream and Interwoven in the New Work section. Just A Dream is a long term project focusing on home foreclosure which I'm giving myself at least a year on while Interwoven is the product of my assignment for Fader in Oaxaca, MX.

2/9/2009 Guizhou, A Precious Land has been profiled by Jennifer MacFarlane on Janera.com online magazine.

2/8/2009 Some info updates:

A few new portraits added to Crossed Paths series.

Will be soon adding an edit of my long term project on foreclosed homes entitled Just A Dream as well as my new Oaxaca essay and a few others.

I'm taking another stab at blogging which will have links to friends and others work and an ongoing random photo series I have been working on since 2001, Glimmers.

1/5/2009 I will be on assignment in Oaxaca, Mexico from the 5th - 9th . Please feel free to contact me via email.

12/11/2008 Sparkler Shower from Guizhou, A Precious Land, will be included in the InLiquid at Urban Gallery group show. Philadelphia Naval Yard: 12/3/08 - 1/5/09

12/3/2008 Photo featured on great photo blog, L'instant des.

11/19/2008 Interview: by photographer Matt Lutton at DVAFoto.

11/17/2008 Interview: by PDNedu.

11/11/2008 Portrait of artist Micheal Gira in new F2 online magazine.

11/7/2008 My election night photos from Times SQ and Harlem, posted on Kanye West's Blog.