Work in Progress
The Fox River is a sort of unofficial boundary between the Chicago suburbs and the towns that still maintain their own character. The river is commercialized and industrialized, but still maintains much natural beauty and character. Responding to the prompt of "Water and Oil", I found the river a suitable avenue to explore, from a topographical, cultural and environmental standpoint. I set out to document the landscape of the river, but to free the resulting documentation from my control using water and oil products as physical materials included in the image making process.

Peter Hoffman Chicago, IL
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Peter Hoffman is a freelance photographer and photographic educator based in and around Chicago, Illinois. His clients include the Wall St. Journal, The National (Abu Dhabi), Grazia (U.K) and others. His work has been selected for recognition by places like the American Photography Annual, Fotografia Festival (Rome) and Project Basho and awarded by places such as the International Photography Awards, Px3 (Paris), and the College Photographer of the Year competition.

His personal work is both autobiographical and project based, exploration issues surrounding the environment and people’s attachments and relationships to different places and landscapes.