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Peterson, Mark

Mark Peterson’s photographs have been published in the New York Times Magazine, New York, The New Yorker, Fortune, Time and Geo, among many others. His awards include the 2018 W. Eugene Smith Fund Grant for his work on white supremacy in the United States, and his photographs have featured in numerous exhibitions including “Museums are Worlds” at the Louvre in 2012. Steidl published Peterson’s Political Theatre in 2016, one of Time’s Best Photobooks of 2016 and winner for traditional book at the 2017 Lucie Photo Book Prize. In 2017 Photo District News named him Photographer of the Year for Political Theatre and his campaign work. Peterson’s images of the storming of the 2021 United States Capitol are held in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
The Past is Never Dead</a>

The Past is Never Dead

The Past is Never Dead is a trilogy of books by Mark Peterson examining the American political landscape over the past ten years as the country’s experiment with democracy has evolved into a cold civil war. The first book “Political Theatre” documents the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election and traces the rise of Donald Trump as a leader of the new right.

The Fourth Wall</a>

The Fourth Wall

Over the past ten years Mark Peterson has focused his lens on the divided political landscape America has become. The Fourth Wall takes up Peterson’s ongoing documentation where his award-winning book Political Theatre, depicting the troubled lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, left off.