pete john

Artist & Photographer

Current Project

TWO WAYS OF BEING REAL

One looks familiar. One exists only once.

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About pete john

Portrait of pete john, black and white
pete john

pete john is an artist and photographer with artistic roots in New York and Cologne. Since the 1990s his work has focused on people, bodies, spaces and the question of what makes an image credible. Today his practice combines digital moving images with one-of-a-kind analog Polaroids, exploring perception, closeness and authenticity in a time when real, edited and artificially generated images have become almost impossible to tell apart. pete john lives and works in Germany. Alongside his visual practice, pete john is the bandleader of Alive Phönix.

Early Work

A piece from the very beginnings — long before the current project took shape.

Black-and-white photograph from 1999: people waiting on a platform bench, a passing train behind them
Waiting While Life Departs pete john 1999
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