For me, certain places have a strong emotional resonance - particularly places of ruins or other echoes of a human presence now vanished or wild or bucolic places where human presence, if found at all, seems distinctly secondary. Since photography bears direct witness to its subject matter, it creates a kind of intimacy between image and subject that makes it an ideal medium through which to visually communicate subjective and emotional truths about places that cannot be put into words. At its best, it invites viewers to reconstruct these places in their imaginations with a heightened sense of their emotional pull.
Peter Axilrod has been photographing landscapes and remains of past civilizations all over the world for many years, focusing on places that are removed to one degree or another from modern daily life - places that generally have more to do with nature, myth or the past. His images have been exhibited in New York City, Durham North Carolina, Lyme Connecticut and Incheon, Republic of Korea. They also are held in numerous personal and corporate collections in both the United States and the Republic of Korea.
Silver Gelatin Prints. Silver gelatin exhibition prints of my photographs were made in a collaborative process involving both photographer and printer either directly from medium format black and white film negatives or from contact negatives created from high density digital image files. The pure black and white images in the online gallery are lower density versions of the printed images, lacking both their resolution and tonal qualities.
Photographic Sketchbooks. The online gallery also includes tinted monochrome smartphone snapshots that are best viewed as photographic sketches rather than stand-alone exhibition quality prints. They are currently available only as pages in a photographic "sketchbook".
Incheon International Contemporary Photography Exhibition
Echoes of Seorabeol -
Ancient Sacred Places in Modern Gyeongju
Incheon, Republic of Korea
September 26-30, 2026
Lyme Public Library Gallery Space
Connecticut River Tidewater
Lyme, CT
July 20 - September 20, 2023
Bull City Ballroom
Selected Images
Durham, NC
2021-2023
Morning Calm Gallery
Remote Mountain Ranges (color prints) -
Nepal Himalaya, Chinese Karakoram, Northern and Eastern Alaska
New York, NY
1993 and 1995
