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Brian Scott Peterson is a good ol’ boy from Tulsa, Oklahoma with a penchant for waking up and drinking the leftover 1/2 drunken glass of red wine from the night before.

His heroes include, but not limited to, Babe Ruth, Monty Python, Tom Waits, and Pablo Picasso (with honorable mentions to the Dalai Lama and his own sister.)  The only thing this circus cowboy really knows is that he knows nothing at all, nevertheless, his eternal quest for enlightenment and the perfect slice of pizza rages on.

Photography info:

Websites:
brianscottpeterson.com
zebriography.com
magnesiumphotos.com

Solo Exhibitions

‘Below the North River Vol. 1, 2, and 3’ – Tokyo, 2006, 2007
‘Namazu’ – Tokyo, 2007
‘Monochrome Rainbows’ – Tokyo, 2007
‘Love Today’ – Tokyo, 2008
‘Skycrapin’ by… Vol. 1, Shinjuku’ – Tokyo, 2009

Group Exhibitions

Hanafuda Collective – ‘Itazurako’ – Tokyo, 2006
Hanafuda – ‘Iidabashi Art Fair’ – Tokyo, 2007
The Tokyo Beats – ‘…And the Horse you road in on’ – Yokohama, 2007
Engestu Satsuhou -‘円月撮法’-  Tokyo, 2007
Wooloo – ‘Urban Space’ – Berlin, 2008, Paraty, Brazil, 2008
(Future screenings are scheduled for Lisbon, Porto, New York City, Chicago, Montreal, Buenos Aires and Caracas.)
The Tokyo Beats: Collaboration with Sean Wood – ‘ Hail to the Taxi Vol. 1’ – Tokyo, 2008
The Tokyo Beats: Collaboration with Sean Wood – ‘ Hail to the Taxi Vol. 2’ – Tokyo, 2008
The Tokyo Beats – ‘The War on Reality’ – Tokyo, 2008
BOP, Association Bricolages Ondulatoires et Particulaires – To Be Announced – Paris, 2009

Publications

Japanzine, 2006, 2009
Hanafuda, 2006
The Tokyo Beats, 2007
Heso, 2007, 2008
Metropolis, 2009
Plateform, 2009
High Jumper, 2010
Magnesium Photos, 2009, 2010
Asahi Weekly, 2010
iNSIGHT, 2011

Brian is a founding member of the Magnesium Agency, a small, independent, agile photo agency, founded in Tokyo in 2009. It has been growing its network all over the world. Email us directly at: inquiries@magnesiumphotos.com.

Hanafuda, founded in 2006, is a non-exclusive society dedicated to the promotion of art and the creative process. It foundation lies within the Japanese picture card game Hanafuda and the games’s objective of associating images.  Hanafuda acts as a platform wherein artists are in constant stimulation by other members and create as a result, inspiring other members within the collective, perpetuating the creative process.

The Tokyo Beats was a collective of six Tokyo-based photographers who collaboratively to put forth excellence in all photographic and otherwise creative projects to forward each individual member and the group as a whole.

Members included:
Eiichi Miyamoto http://www.flickr.com/photos/scart/
Jim O’Connell  http://www.mmdc.net/
Brian Scott Peterson http://www.brianscottpeterson.com/
Brett Richardson http://www.sugardisaster.com/
Adrian Storey http://www.uchujin.co.uk
Sean Wood http://www.50mm.jp

For more information, please see www.tokyobeats.com

Time flies like and arrow, fruit flies like a banana…