Peter Essick

Peter Essick is a photographer, author, speaker, instructor, and drone pilot who specializes in nature and environmental themes. Named one of the 40 most influential nature photographers in the world by Outdoor Photography Magazine UK, Essick has been influenced by many noted American landscape photographers from Carleton Watkins to Robert Adams. His goal is to make photographs that move beyond mere documentation to reveal in careful compositions the human impact of development as well as the enduring power of the land.

Essick is the author of three books of his photographs, The Ansel Adams Wilderness, Our Beautiful, Fragile World and Fernbank Forest. He has photographed stories for National Geographic on many environmental issues including climate change, high-tech trash, nuclear waste and freshwater. Essick's photographs are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia and the Booth Western Art Museum. He is represented by Spalding Nix Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia.

Currently, Essick is working on a series of drone photographs of construction sites in Atlanta, Georgia.