Peter Farkas Photography

Peter has always loved photography and architecture. According to his sister, he once “forgot” his box camera on a train; he wanted his parents to buy him a better camera. Peter doesn’t remember that, but he does remember buying a 16mm Rollei “spy” camera the day he graduated from high school and his first SLR just after college.

The SLR got him published in Boston After Dark, an entertainment weekly. Friends encouraged him to submit some of his work for a centerfold devoted to a local amateur photographer in every issue. Several months after his pictures were published he was flattered by a call from an editor to send him on a location shoot for a feature in the magazine. 

Peter was born in Budapest, Hungary, and grew up in Budapest, Prague, Paris and Munich.  His family emigrated to the U.S. when he was ten, but he did not move here until after graduation from Munich American High School.  He moved to Washington, D.C., after three years in Boston.  He currently lives in the Palisades neighborhood and travels extensively.  Peter’s photography is greatly influenced by his love of architecture and travel and contrast; contrast in colors, textures and shapes.