ABOUT PETER RITTLING

Peter is a photographer living and working in San Francisco, California. He has degrees in English and Italian from the State University of New York College at Buffalo and a graduate degree from Tulane University. In May 2010, Peter completed a three-year graduate program in photography at the San Francisco Studio School.

THE WORK

Park Fugue: Photographs from Golden Gate Park

Park Fugue is Peter's most recent project and the result of several years of photographing in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. A collection of seventy-two photographs from the Park Fugue project will be published in a book this winter under the same title.

Peter's work in Golden Gate Park is as much concerned with the formal language of photography as it is with the landscape of the park. The twelve photographs shown here and the seventy-two included in the book follow and build on the rich history of American and European urban landscape photography as practiced by such important figures as Eugène Atget, Josef Sudek, and Ray Metzker. The influences for Park Fugue are not limited to the history of photography, however, but draw from the mediums of drawing and painting, including the works of the great American abstract expressionists.

Two Weeks in Bangkok, August 2006

Two Weeks in Bangkok explores the frenetic energy and diversity of the city’s street life. Pictured are images of the city’s markets, temples, and people.

Ocean Beach, San Francisco, Winter of 2005

The Ocean Beach project is an ongoing project exploring the conflict between the urban and natural environments. Ocean Beach is a true dichotomy – it is beautiful and unsightly – deliberate and accidental.

CONTACT INFORMATION

To inquire about the work, including the book Park Fugue: Photographs from Golden Gate Park, please email Peter at rpr@peter-rittling.com.

Thank you.