Biography

Short Resume of the career of Peter Fredrick

Peter Fredrick, a childhood survivor of the London Blitz, Started his working life as a professional photographer in the fields of Advertising, Architecture, and spent a short spell at the British Museum. Before undertaking the main thrust of his career in photographic education. Former head of Photographic Studies, at South East Essex college of Art and Technology which followed teaching experience, at Salisbury College of Art, the London College of Printing and Ealing Technical College.He has led many workshops and exhibitions of Alternative Photographic printmaking throughout the United Kingdom also at Illinois State University, RMIT Melbourne, Edith Cowen University Perth, International art centre at Masia Can Serrat, and the Patack Gallery central Warsaw.

Illinois State University, Denver Centre for Visual Arts, and The University of Westminster Permanent Collection, also hold his work.

His book Creative Sunprinting published by focal press in 1980 has become a collectors item.

Director and owner Mostly Photographic gallery and workshop 1982-90

Inventor of the Temperaprint process

Joint Founder of School Temperaprint in North Kensington, Central London

A speaker to the 1996 meeting of the Alternative, Photographic, International, Symposium [APIS] at the House of European Photography in Paris, and also in following years at the Royal Photographic Societies House in Bath.

Artists Statement

I am inspired in my work by the signs of mankind a poem from the RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAME OF NAISHAPUR, well illustrates this concern.

"For in and out, above about below.
O'Tis nothing but a magic shadow show.
Played in a box whose candle is the sun.
Round which we phantom figures come and go".

This vision of old Omar runs through his work as a central theme.

The heart as well as the lens must capture the magic of this show,
Places where frozen time reveals secrets,
The ghost is caught in the machine,
Illuminating where time grows thin,
Signs of man impact greater than man himself,
The footprint has meaning greater than the foot,
The spirituality of vision, a divine mystery,
Is intersected by the magic mirror,
In the absence of human vanity,
Other forces move forward to claim dominion.

Peter Fredrick

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Further details from:
Peter Charles Fredrick
34 Trinity Road
Southend -on-Sea
Essex SS2 4HJ
Tel :-01702 308187

e-mail temperaprint@blueyonder.co.uk