Peter Harlow
Victoria
Peter Harlow is an abstract aerial landscape photographer. His goal is to enable you to see the world from new and unusual angles.
MessagePeter Harlow was born in England and educated to first degree level at London University. After a career including aerial photography, marketing and personal development training & coaching, he emigrated to Australia in 2001. Here, he established a business marketing and supporting specialist light aircraft for landowners, flying schools and individuals. In 2022, after almost 20 years involvement, he handed over this enterprise to a new owner and took up commercial drone flying. This combined his lifelong loves of flying and photography to enable him to capture images impossible from a piloted aircraft. He has won a number of awards for his pictures and taken part in both shared and solo exhibitions of his work. He now lives on the bayside, south of Melbourne, and is an active member of the Bayside Artists Collective.
Solo exhibitions:
2025 March - Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne: 'Australian Altitude'
2023 May – Gasworks Arts Park Gallery Solo exhibition: ‘Altitude’
Others:
2024 November – HeadOn Art Show Sydney: ‘Mystic Imago’
2024 February Chiaroscuro Gallery, Beaumaris joint exhibition: ‘Anthology’
2024 January – Chateau Gallery, Louisville, USA ‘Monochrome’: ‘Amuse’
2023 December – Chateau Gallery, Louisville, USA ‘Abstract’: ‘Fissura’
2023 November – AddOn Art Show Sydney: ‘Jet Stream #1’
2023 September – Invited Presentation ‘Altitude’ to Melbourne Camera Club
Awards:
2024 Australian Photographer of the year, Top 10 ‘Pelican Moon'
2024 Australian Photographer of the year, Top 20 'Ghosts in the lake'
2024 Nature Conservancy Aus, Oceania Photo Contest, 2nd place, ‘Island Universe’
2024 HeadOn Photo Awards, Honourable Mention, ‘Mystic Imago’
2024 Australia Photographic Prize, Silver Award, ‘Pelican Moon’,
2024 Australia Photographic Prize, Highly Commended, ‘Cascade’
2024 Australia Photographic Prize, Highly Commended, ‘Mystic Imago’
2024 Australia Photographic Prize, Highly Commended, ‘Lorelei’
2024 10th Fine Art Photography Awards, 3rd place ‘Tyrrell Series’
2024 Siena Photo Awards, Abstract Aerial, Shortlisted ‘Salt Lake Conversations’
2024 10th Fine Art Photography Awards, Nominee, ‘The sky is water’
2024 10th Fine Art Photography Awards, Nominee, ‘Yellow Emperor’
2023 Australian Photographer of the year, Aerial Category, Highly Commended ‘Tyrrell’
2023 Australian Photographer of the year, Aerial Category, Highly Commended ‘Cadmium’
2023 The Landscape Awards, Urban Category, Top 30 ‘Triangle’
2023 The Landscape Awards, Urban Category, Highly Commended ‘No Salt’
2023 The Landscape Awards, Seascape Category, Highly Commended ‘Fissura’
2023 The Landscape Awards, Seascape Category, Commended ‘Achelous’
2023 The Landscape Awards, Seascape Category, Commended ‘Virococha’
2023 9th Fine Arts Photography Awards, Nominee ‘Triangle’
2023 9th Fine Arts Photography Awards, Nominee ‘Toluncan series’ (including Achelous)
2022 LensCulture Art Photography Awards, Editor’s Gallery ‘Fissura’
Statement
Peter Harlow is an abstract aerial landscape photographer, beginning his practice in late 2021. From a viewpoint of less than fifty metres above the surface, nature paints its own abstract images, unique and perfect. These images are constantly changing with the wind, rain and seasons. In this sense, his photographs represent impermanence and fragility. By presenting a different view of the landscape, his intention is to cause you to pause, consider and reflect on the changing and transformative beauty of nature.
“I love the patterns and textures made on the terrain by the elements – occasionally modified by human hand. Views from the sky often reveal otherwise unseen colours and shapes and you enter a new world of dreamlike images.”
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