Russel Peters

Russel Peters is a German artist based in Hamburg. His work moves between photography, digital composition and architectural abstraction. It begins with fragments of the built environment: façades, construction sites, reflections, technical surfaces and the quiet geometry of urban space. Through reduction, layering and colour, these observations are transformed into images that no longer describe a place, but reveal a rhythm within it.
The ongoing series Synthesis: Architectural Abstractions, developed since 2019, reflects his interest in the tension between structure and perception. Lines become movement, surfaces become depth, and architecture becomes a field of visual resonance.
Peters’ long experience in photography and moving image shapes his precise sense of framing, light and spatial balance. His works are conceived as calm, concentrated images: clear in construction, yet open enough to invite a slower way of looking.

1987-1990
Professional training as a photographer, Duisburg, Germany

1990
Journeyman’s examination in photography, completed with distinction

1990-1993
Assistant to photographer Jacques Schumacher, Hamburg, Germany

Since 1993
Independent artistic and professional work in photography, moving image, architecture and visual communication