PETER PERYER
b. 1941, New ZealandPeter Peryer turned by chance to photography in his early thirties, after being excited by a visit to a camera club. The early work that resulted, black and white images made with a plastic ‘Diana’ camera, had a dark moody intensity, a grainy somber expressionistic quality mixed with a compositional elegance. Peryer’s practice then became more versatile in its interests and flavours - varying in method.
His photographs became not just spontaneously discovered but also carefully constructed, the setting and props planned – be they of intimate portraits of himself or his family or unpeopled landscapes. In the early eighties he began to move further beyond nature, looking at gridded architecture, machinery and other manmade objects and including more midtones, and eventually colour. These images became more overtly mediated and carefully composed, even using digital processes to assist that search for perfection.
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