About
There is a beauty in difficulty: in long processes, in craft, in the making of something tangible. This beauty requires patience and concentration. It is slow and deliberate. Representative, perhaps, of a romantic past–a way of interacting with the world that is deeply connected to people, places, and work.
Peter Gumaskas’ work reflects this difficult beauty of the past. Not wistfully, but by bringing that past into the present. Whether he is carrying a 5”x7” camera and glass plates from a century ago to the mountains of the northeastern United States, taking a cross-country road trip inspired by American car culture, or documenting a slowly disappearing truck shop in a small east coast town, he embraces our history and a sense of Americana–and reflects that back to us. His resulting images are not epitaphs for the past, but celebrations of how tangible life can be and how we might bring this into our future, as we celebrate a more interconnected way of life.
Photo by Topher Cox.
Contact:
Email: peter@petergumaskas.com
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