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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. He captures a time in which the left and right move further apart, misinforma_x0002_tion and untruths abound in the media, and politicians have no qualms in breaking the fourth wall to recruit audiences to their causes. Peterson tackles these schisms head-on and portrays a country on edge, through subjects such as “Stop the Steal” protesters and the 6 January 2021 attack on the United States Capitol. With his trademark flash and high-contrast approach, Peterson’s dramatic black-and-white images are like X-rays of America’s complex political culture: “Democracy is a messy form of government,” he declares, “and I try and capture it in all its chaos.” In Peterson’s case and ours there is nothing more frightening than the truth ... his light and his framing construct visual revelations, which enter into the timeless avenue of the metaphor. - Larry Fink

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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.

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