Peter Lik Research Paper

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Peter Lik was born in Melbourne, Australia and picked up photography at 8 years old. When Lik touched his first Brownie Kodak camera; his career was already chosen. He took photography to a new level and surprised everyone with amazing landscape shots. In 1984, Peter traveled 50 states to capture mother nature’s secrets. Then made a video of each shot taken for a collage. He takes a lot waterfall, tree, mountain, cave photographs, and sometimes desert environments. Peter motto is “Go big, or go home” which means he aims for unrealistic shots and magical places. Due to this mindset, he was blessed enough to have his images “Ghost “ and “inner piece “displayed in Smithsonian National Museum (para. 6).

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