Peter Cunningham

Peter Cunningham is a professional photographer who loves the work he is privileged to be doing. His teachers include Baptist fisherman Lester Tate, French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, Zen Master Bernie Glassman and singer-songwriterJanis Ian. Peter has exhibited his photographs and films in New York, Krakow, London, Paris, Tokyo, Jerusalem, Kigali, Nanjing, Beijing, Berlin and Grand Manan, Canada. His clients include singers, teachers, chefs, playwrights, athletes, accountants, actors, fishermen and clowns. He has taught “Photography as Zen Practice” in China, and is co-author with Peter Matthiessen of “Are We There Yet? A Zen Journey through Space and Time.” Peter’s first paid job was to make Bruce Springsteen’s Columbia Records pictures in 1973, he joined the staff of The Bottom Line in 1974, and in 1982 made Madonna’s first publicity pictures. He is currently working on books about sculpture, children, history, values, language, and juxtaposition.
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