Artist bio:

Peter Fraser (peterfraser.net) was born in Wales in 1953, and studied photography at Manchester Polytechnic from 1972 to 1976. Since 1982, his work has been widely exhibited; in London at, among others, ICA, Barbican Art Gallery, Hayward gallery, Stephen Friedman gallery and The Photographers Gallery and also at Ffotography, Cardiff; Brighton photo Biennale 2003; St. Louis Museum of Art, Missouri; Spectrum/Sprenget Museum, Hannover; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, and Rooseum, Malmo. His work is included in many private and public collections including Siemans Collection, Munich; Fotografie Forum, Frankfurt; National Museum of Photography, Film and television, Bradford; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Arts Council of England; and Washington University Art Gallery, St. Louis. Several books on his work have been published, including Two Blue Buckets (Cornerhouse Publications, 1988), Peter Fraser 2002 (The Photographers’ Gallery, 2002), Material (Steidl, 2002) and Peter Fraser (Nazraeli Press 2006). In 2004 he was short-listed for the prestigious Citibank Photo Prize.

Why Fraser’s work was selected for the piece:

“I’ve enjoyed Peter Fraser’s work for several years. His subject matter harnesses small asides and often insignificant things. Once shaped by Peter they become delicate artifacts of our indulgent, broken civilization.

Peter’s work came to mind as I read the LSD essay. Here Jake MacDonald smartly forwent any emphasis on the psychedelic culture in which LSD is generally entrenched. Instead he favoured the reductive nature and wholeness many experienced under the influence of LSD.

Likewise, Peter’s images are re-orienting in a way that they quietly champion colour, texture and forms; things which become even more potent under the influence Jake speaks to.”

Bree Seeley
Picture Editor, The Walrus