Is a:Photographer based out of South Bend, Indiana, USA making real life photos. Memories for your future self.
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Casual portraits. Back yard photo sessions. Everyday life.
And is a:Photo/video crew member for hire, including sUAS operations (14 CFR Part 107).
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Peter Metzger, 2024
About Peter Metzger:
I’m a musician and educator whose deep involvement in the worlds of music and audio technology revealed a need for an alternate creative outlet. This realization led to me once again offering photography services to the public as of late 2024.
I’ve been actively interested in photography for a long time, and first started really taking it seriously around 2008. From 2012-2014, I ran a studio called rävenfoto, providing family, event, and commercial photo/video services alongside branding and marketing design. After closing the doors there, I continued to pursue photography as a strictly personal exercise. At the start of
2022, my friend Adam convinced me to take a step back toward commercial work, and in the years since I’ve done a wide range of freelance work with many photographers in the area, including photo, video, and drone gigs in roles ranging from production assistant to lead videographer. In 2024, I built this website to again offer photography to the public alongside my freelance work with other photographers.
This time around, I’m focusing exclusively on portraiture, with an emphasis on creating “real life photos” that reflect subjects as they really are - not in some perfect instagram world, but in the everyday locations and situations that are meaningful to the people in the photos. Friends hanging out in a back yard. Artists in their studios. Professionals in their workplaces.
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Opening Reflection:
I'm curious how often people look through photos taken on their phones but not posted to social media. Personally, I only do when I'm looking for something specific or when my phone recommends curated memory albums.
I wish this wasn't the case - but for me, when photos are too easily acquired, they're just as easily forgotten. Many of my fondest early childhood memories were captured on film and stuck in a big old photo album which I'd pull off the shelf a few times per year and flip through.
Looking through selected memories in my parents' photo albums of course reinforced those memories, and maybe shaped my view of my own childhood, but they also served as a historical record - and they were how I learned more about my older brothers' childhoods.
I feel like this experience was shared across my generation (early-mid millennials) and one or two before, and is a phenomenon that has largely come to an end. Maybe I'm wrong, and people either still regularly put together physical photo albums, or have a true digital equivalent, but my sense is that such an experience is a rarity these days.
Anyway, this whole train of thought is why I've stepped back into the photography business after some time away - I want to take photos of people in their real life settings, creating memories for their future selves and generating tangible artifacts of everyday life.
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Above: some of my favorite film photos dating from 2011 - 2024.