Brian Peterson – BOP Photography

Author: Brian Peterson

Brian Scott Peterson was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is the grandson of Gordon and Mary Margaret Fallis, who were editors and publishers of the Tulsa Tribune and the TulsaLite and Spotlite magazines, respectively. It was their early introduction of photojournalism and print making that first piqued his interest in photography. After attending the University of Colorado at Boulder, he traveled and photographed extensively throughout southeast and central Asia before relocating to Tokyo, Japan where he has been based since 2004. Chronicling his adventures in the Tokyo and his frequent trips to China’s main urban centers has been the focus of this recent photographic work. Using primarily traditional techniques, he exhibits frequently both in Japan and internationally. His work has been published in various local cultural magazines. For more information please visit: brianscottpeterson.com (website) zokyo.jp (blog)

Nipponikong

2009/06/152015/02/06 Categories: Archives · GuestsTags: guest photographers

In the sandbox in my back yard, like most American children, I too thought that if I dug a hole deep enough, I just might end up in the Orient. The fantasies of what I might find were filled with bustling rickshaws toting red-umbrella-ed geishas, orient-silk’d emperors sitting in gold-flaked thrones in Shaolin temples, Chinese-starred ninjas battling Kung Fu samurai while their fu-man-chu mustached masters watched atop spiring greed-jaded mountain tops. When I got older I discovered my fantasies were ever so slightly askew and that getting to the orient did indeed require digging a deep hole, however a financial…