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View of the Bay Bridge from downtown San Francisco when on location last year shooting the WAB annual report.

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This is one of my favorite portraits that I have taken. It was part of my project called “The Things That Affect Our Lives Every Day”, a series about those individuals in Arizona working to bring about immigration policy reform.

This series of portraits was shot in 2012-2014 using an 8x10 view camera with black and white film. This was the first time I had extensively used such a camera. At the time, I wanted to use different equipment as a way to change the process of how I work and approach portraiture. Before I started the project I had a clear idea about the look and feel I was trying to achieve with the lighting, film and subject matter. 

I ended up using the view camera to create a number of photos for this project. I experimented with traditional 8x10 black and white film and also the Impossible Project instant 8x10 film. 

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Enjoying Sunday down time while editing portraits I shot of Maisy back in May. 

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Memphis observations... experimenting with some new sequences for book layouts from recent travel adventures.

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Outtake from my shoot for Harvard Law Bulletin published in May. Attorney General of the Navajo Nation, Ethel Branch works to strengthen tribal law and native voices.

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New portrait work... Jonah

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New book from our adventures last spring in New Mexico... a sort of road trip journal and sketchbook. Maisy contributed drawings and few photos from heather this time in addition to mine. My favorite part is seeing the process to completion from shoot to edit to printed document. Here are a few of my favorite spreads. 

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The skies became dark but we kept moving along highway 55 as the storms rolled through the Mississippi Delta in Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas. (From road trip journal in May) .

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Perfect time to get outside.

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Lately I’ve been editing some new work from my series ‘Some Days We Caught Rainbows’ contemplating the passage of time and how much things have changed..

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Heading up north into the pines... 

(March 2018 Cloudcroft, New Mexico)

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While working on a treatment for a client today, I came across some older portfolio work I hadn’t visited in a while. .

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Processing error’ a melted film construct newly added to my site in the ‘sketchbook’ section 

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Recently in Alabama... 

(Muscle Shoals Sound Studio) 

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Long weekends...

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Spent the last couple of days making prints at the studio while updating my portfolio. There is a nice sort of solitude that I embrace when working long days at the studio. I’m looking forward to sharing the new work over the next few months. #makingprints #alwayscreate #studiosolitude #markpeterman #printyourphotographs (at First Studio)

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More work from the Chase project… Arcosanti