Photography
Unable to sleep and quite restless from an awe-inspiring adventurous trip through Central and Eastern Nepal, I was wide awake and unable to sleep at 2:00am. I had been on a small rickety prop plane flight at the base of the Himalayas and then jumped on a flight out of Kathmandu without much sleep. There I sat in a Hong Kong hotel lobby preparing for a next day departure to Los Angeles while reviewing pictures taken during the trip through Nepal.
View some of my favorite pictures by clicking on the play button below.
I had heard about the flickr photo sharing site and began posting pictures in order to share with people back home including friends and family that were at our local church in LA. They had prayed and provided support for the journey and were anxious to hear about what we encountered on a vision trip to help local Nepali people. Christ was being exalted and proclaimed there by a strong Spirit filled church amidst persecution and it was a joy to hear about the faith of the Nepalese. It was encouraging to know that when he jumped in our van at the LA airport that our driver and the church had already seen images from the trip and had heard stories of our travels. I never knew that the site would be so popular when I first began using the flickr to share pictures and I am thankful that it has served well.
By God’s grace, I now have over 900,000 views on my flickr page with an undocumented quantity of downloads of those images. I put images online that can be easily downloaded within my authorized permission listed below.
I have had the joy of photographing various people from a U.S. Congressman to Romanian orphans. I also enjoy taking nature shots and photographing my own beautiful rose garden.
Some of my credits for photography include:
Published photos with national and foreign media including CNN, NowPublic, File Magazine and Oxygene Media.
Published in commercial campaigns for email and print with the Berklee College of Music.
See the photos here http://brianapetersen.com/archives/1139
Photo used for the campaign brochure to end poverty in Asia and Pacific with the 2015 UN Millennium Campaign Organization.
Photo used at a workshop detailing the importance of photographs in religious archives at Catholic University in Wash, DC by Brett Carnell, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
Photo used in a “inspiration gallery” by the Chicago Architecture Foundation as part of a new on-line curriculum to teach architecture to high school students. http://www.tah2.org/
The Biola University Library uses a photograph for the design of the background of their twitter page.
Just Vision, a Middle East non-profit organization is using my “lens photo” as their main logo and corporate brand.
A photo from the Westminster Abbey in London was included in the second edition of the Schmap England Guide published in late June 2008.
Photos have been used on the Biola University website and a promotional video for the World Evangelization Conference for the Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS).
Shot to be used for the Academy of Ancient Music for Good Friday 2010 during a devotional performance of the St John Passion at St. John’s, Smith Square, London.
Photo featured in a presentation on Transylvanian Castles and Fortresses for an educational program for the Surrey Museum in British Columbia, Canada.
Header and article photo credits on a mastering article in Resident Advisor. Resident Advisor is the leading online electronic music magazine. Established in 2001, RA publishes news, reviews and features to an audience of more than 600,000* monthly readers. Thousands of artist and label profiles—and even more user-generated event and club listings—have made RA an invaluable resource to both the clued-up music lover and the clubgoer simply looking for a good night out. With offices in London and Berlin and contributors spanning the globe, RA covers anything and everything that is electronic music-related.
See the article here. http://brianapetersen.com/archives/1200
Images are also used for professional and technical audio visual training including a presentation on “Practical Sound Recording and Editing Techniques For Better Video” at the New Media Expo in Las Vegas by David Tames at www.kino-eye.com
A photo layout with possible publication by the fundraising program at St. Jude.
Studio photography on music albums
Shots regularly used on numerous blogs.
Published in commercial advertisements by Microboards in the October 2008 printing of the “Church Production Magazine.”
Documenting Nepal and the actions of Christian church only a month after the Civil War ended in 2006. I also enjoyed documenting the now deceased Romanian worship leader and national hero, Nicolae Moldoveanu, who suffered torture and persecution under the Communist regime.
Photos and video have also been used for the Mission Gallerias at Bethany Church in Long Beach including service videos for Mission Sunday.
Photos and videos are shown and used in print and on the web at Grace Evangelical Free Church in La Mirada, CA.
Photography and video for short term trips documenting Christian missionary groups in Nicargaua (2002), Romania (04,06,07), China (2005), and Nepal (2007).
A Church billboard located at the Shatin Peace Evangelical Church, in Hong Kong, China.
An invitation card to a charity event of a restoration of a local village church.
Photo used to design a church-wedding rose invitation card
Photo used for Canadian Church prayer emphasis week
Background for church worship at the Cairnhill Methodist Church in Singapore
Church posters by Coram Deo in Bremerton, WA
Church directory at the Faith Covenant Church of God in Scottsboro, AL USA
I currently shoot with a Canon 50D and a Sony DSC H2.
I also own numerous Nikon film cameras including a large format 4×5 box camera that I wished I knew how to use.
