Tag: Peter Essick
Peter Essick’s photography glimpses a changing city from above
During the pandemic Peter Essick, an award-winning photographer who often shoots for National Geographic, was spending a lot of time on the road. Commuting regularly from his home in Stone Mountain for a project at the Fernbank Museum in North Druid Hills, Essick began to notice all the construction projects popping up along the route. “From the road, all that construction wasn’t that visually interesting,” Essick says. “But then I started thinking, what would it look like from a drone?” With that idea, a new project was born.
Booth Museum spotlights the work of Georgia nature photographer Peter Essick
In 2015 Atlanta photographer Peter Essick strapped on cross-country skis and traveled across 10 miles of snow to Takakkaw Falls, the third highest waterfall in Canada, which he then scaled using ropes and ice picks—all to get a picture.
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