Contact
Email: pete@peterchatterton.ca
Phone: (647) 822 8707
BIO
Peter Chatterton is a photographer based in Bowmanville, Ontario. His projects unfold over years and across place. At the centre of his practice is a belief that close attention to another becomes a form of knowing.
The camera, for Chatterton, is permission. It creates the conditions for a kind of intimacy that would otherwise have no framework, an opening between photographer and subject that he follows with curiosity and empathy. The meaning of what he finds there rarely arrives all at once. It accumulates over time, through the work of looking back, of watching a world become visible that was too close to see clearly at the time.
His work has been published in the British Journal of Photography and Subjectively Objective, and exhibited internationally, including at the University of Arkansas School of Art. His projects are realized as photo books and exhibitions.
ARTIST STATEMENT
The camera gives me a reason to get close, to ask questions, to return again and again. When I look through the viewfinder I am in another world, not quite my own.
I am curious about people and my empathy tends to direct me. I don’t always know what I have until much later, when I am looking back at the pictures, sometimes years afterward, watching a world become visible that was too close to see when I was inside it. That distance is part of the work.
I make portraits, landscapes, interiors and still life because I believe a person’s presence quietly accumulates across all the places they inhabit. I am drawn to people and places I don’t yet understand. I follow that pull without always knowing where it leads.
CV
Exhibitions and education
2026 - Deflate: Failures, Flops & Silver Linings, University of Arkansas School of Art-Group exhibit
2025- Chico review alum
2024 - The British Journal of Photography, Portrait of Humanity
2024 - The Art Gallery of Northumberland 45th Juried Exhibition
2021 - The Art Gallery of Northumberland 43rd Juried Exhibition
2020 - Durham Region MP Office (group show)
2020 – Visual Arts Centre of Clarington
2016 - Juried photography show at Pine Ridge Arts Council in collaboration with Contact photography festival
Awards
2024 - The British Journal of Photography, Portrait of Humanity - Short list
2017 - Juried Mono Vision Awards
2016 - Juried photography show at Pine Ridge Arts Council in collaboration with Contact photography festival
Clients