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Author Archives: Peter

Photographer, Teaching Assistant and graduate student at Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication.
All images and commentary here for consideration only and copyright the author. This is a personal repository for thoughts and photos otherwise unseen. For portfolio please visit my website

A note to CHCH citizens

TweetIf you are interested in sharing your story with me regarding the Christchurch Earthquakes please send me an email at peterhoffmanchch@gmail.com In your email please include: – Your current address (if you have been displaced please tell me the address of where you currently are, and also the address of where you used to live), – [...]

Untitled Street #33/ORD->CHC

Tweet  January is usually one of those months where if you’re not careful the weight of winter can start to get to you, but that hasn’t been the case this year. After having springlike conditions unusually late into the year we’ve just recently been getting the snow I was hoping for, and even though I [...]

Pictures from running

Tweet  If you asked me what my priorities were, I might struggle to figure out if running or photography would take precedence. Even though only one of these activities feeds me, they both constantly occupy my mind. For the past 18 months or so I’ve been taking pictures with my cell phone while I’m out [...]

New Years are for experimenting

Tweet I’m not the type to make a list of all my best 2011 pictures, or moments, or whatever. Maybe I’ll care about that stuff a bit more when I’m near my death bed but I’d rather spend more time focusing on what’s ahead, which to me should always include experimentation. If you’re a photographer [...]

Backwards/Forwards

Tweet  The past two summers I’ve been teaching a high school photography course through a program called Upward Bound. We get the luxury of meeting during the hottest weeks of the year and my class is dependent on getting outside to make photographs of the city of Chicago. Both years we made it to Millenium [...]

Theaster Gates in Art in America Magazine

Tweet Well, again – probably one of the most interesting people I’ve met this year is Theaster Gates. Art in America magazine requested to use an image I had from a previous shoot with him for their interview that covered his work and process, which I’d recommend you check out.

Japanese Potters, armwrestling and soul food

Tweet I was recently at work on a pretty interesting project for Chicago artist and community builder Theaster Gates. He asked me to document the process of some of his friends who were in from Japan creating a new body of ceramics for him, based on traditional soul food wares. To be honest there is [...]

Kickstarter: An update

Tweet I’m just over three weeks into the fundraising for this project and I’m really excited to see how far it’s come. I’ve still got just over $800 to raise, but we’re getting close. Thanks everyone who has helped out so far, whether it was with a few dollars or just spreading the word. If [...]

Romka Magazine (Issue #6)

Tweet  One of my favorite images from the past year will be in the upcoming issue of Romka Magazine – a photo magazine out of Germany that celebrates personal work. The magazine is a collection of work by students, hobbyists, amateurs and a few professionals as well, but your job doesn’t matter to the publisher [...]

New Zealand project on Kickstarter

Tweet Christchurch, A Year after the Earthquake on Kickstarter So, I’m trying something new, and this new thing is Kickstarter. Ever since my time living in NZ got me in to photography in 2004 I’ve wanted to go back terribly, but when the earthquakes over the past 18 month began it changed things, and now [...]