Eric Peterson

I have worked most of my professional life in the movies. That experience has left me with an instinct toward a narrative in my photos. Not always as a straightforward story, but at least as a structure to organize pieces of an image to work together. I look to elevate the mundane in my work, to create an image that rewards repeated visits.

Much of my work is a continuing portrait of Los Angeles. I moved to Los Angeles as a young man to go to UCLA Film School, and it turned into a lifelong adventure. I have collected some in my self-published book “Small Pieces of Los Angeles briefly Illuminated”.

MFA from UCLA in Motion Picture/Television. Visual Effects work from low budget space horror to Hollywood blockbusters. Location work from Paris to Samoa.

I have had 3 shows at Sony Pictures Imageworks lobby gallery: “In a Narrative Tradition”, “A Man with a Good Car Can Do Anything”, and “The Erasure Series”

Hale Arts Group Show, May 2014