Peter de Lory, Upper Racehorse Creek Falls, Whatcom County, WA 2020, 2020, Photograph, archival pigment print, 21 x 26.5 x 1.75 in

Peter de Lory began making photographs of the landscape on Cape Cod at the age of sixteen. Growing up on a narrow spit of land surrounded by ocean anchored his early sense of place and attuned him to the relationship between land and water. Later, traveling west to study in San Francisco, he was struck by the scale and vastness of the American landscape.

Looking back, de Lory sees the evolution of his work as mirroring the environments and structures he has inhabited. He describes his approach as that of a "romantic structuralist," a term he coined to define a practice grounded in formal clarity and straightforward structure, which in turn allows space for emotional and interpretive openness.

His work consistently returns to the interplay between memory, myth, and lived reality-a tension well suited to the framing capacities of photography. Committed to a regional approach, de Lory understands his role as an intermediary between viewer and environment, re-representing place in a way that removes it from the everyday and opens it to layered meaning.