Photographer Peter Fraser seems to have an obsessive interest in everyday objects – their physicality, and their colour.
He goes back quite a way: his Green Shed, below, was the first colour cover, in 1986, of the influential British photography magazine, Creative Camera. His first published book, the 1988 Two Blue Buckets (reissued in 2017), was a celebration of the intensity which photography can conjure out of the seemingly banal.
Green Shed. The Valleys Project 1985.
Blue Buckets. Everyday Icons 1986.
Blue Green Wires. Material 2002.
Pink Pipe. Material 2002.
Red Bolt Solder. Material 2002.
Sticky Goo Cross. Material 2002.
Ice Bolt. Material 2002.
Pink Paint Pot. Material 2002.
Yellow Polystyrene. Material 2002.
Yellow Circut Board. Material 2002.
Six Blue Capacitos. Material 2002.
Spilt Pink Paint. Nazraeli Monograph 2006.
From Mathematics 2017.
From Mathematics 2017.
From Mathematics 2017.
[Photos © 2018 Peter Fraser]
For further reading, see the Critical Writing section on his website.
A retrospective was published to coincide with a Tate St Ives exhibition in 2013.
Mick Hartley 
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