Mike Peters Photographer Throughout my career, I have managed to balance by professional responsibilities to my clients by always being engaged in work that explored by interests and allowed for full personal expression of how I felt about those interests, needing only to satisfy myself in the process. 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, newspapers, text-book publishers and public relations. I was a staff newspaper photographer for 3 years in NJ and freelanced for the NY Times for 5 years. PROJECTS, EXHIBITIONS, FEATURES AND PUBLICATIONS 2014 Exhibition at Kean University Burger Gallery, Mill Street Salon: Beyond the Image, group exhibition Interviewed for article in FIX Magazine, a photography magazine in Russia: http://issuu.com/fix-magazine/docs/fix_3_eng/8 Interviewed for the Eric Kim Street Photography Blog by Ollie Gapper: http://erickimphotography.com/blog/2012/01/06/mike-peters-and-the-american-dream/#comments 2013 Featured in WIRED.com,Using a Camera to Cope: Reflecting on 9/11 Through NYC Portraits http://www.wired.com/2013/09/mike-peters/ 2012 Interviewed and featured in FIX Magazine, a Russian magazine about photography: http://issuu.com/fix-magazine/docs/fix_3_eng/8 2011 Exhibition at LUNASA, NYC of images from 9/11 Memorial in 2010. Featured on Fraction Magazine by David Bram - Issue #22 on 1/1/2011 http://www.fractionmagazine.com/artist/mikepeters Featured on Lenscratch Blog by Aline Smithson - Your Favorite Images of 2010 on 1/1/2011 http://lenscratch.blogspot.com/2010/12/your-favorite-images-of-2010_31.html Interviewed by Bryan Formhals for the LPV Blog: http://lpvshow.com/mike-peters-the-dream/ 2010 Featured on Lenscratch Blog by Aline Smithson http://lenscratch.blogspot.com/2010/07/mike-peters.html Featured on the Montclair State University Creative Research Blog by Neal Baldwin https://blogs.montclair.edu/crdirector/2010/08/21/mike-peters-photographs-the-dream-living-images-of-our-post-911-world/ Featured on Cinemafia Blog by Alex Wichman http://cinemafia.net/interviews/mike-peters/ Quoted on the Nowhere Man Blog by Andrew Stark http://starkstreetphotography.blogspot.com/2010/11/wise-words-indeed-mike-peters.html 2009 Mike Peters on Conscientious, Joerg Colberg's weblog about fine-art photography. http://jmcolberg.com/weblog/2009/02/mike_peters/ Mike Peters: What Was He Thinking? On B - Rumblings From The Photographic Hinterlands by Blake Andrews on Blogspot. http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2009/01/mike-peters-what-was-he-thinking.ht 2008 Nicaragua. This is a series of photographs resulting from a two week trip to Nicaragua where 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-Present Staff Photographer: Montclair State University. 1987-Present Freelance Photographer 1985 - 87 Staff Photographer: The New Jersey Herald, Newton, NJ. 1983 - 85 Staff Photographer: 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.