Pete Fleming, Crossing, 2024, Tripe overprinted inkjet on newsprint., 9 x 11 x 1.5 in

Starting with light and touch, Pete Fleming's work explores the sensual and haptic materiality of contemporary images. His practice operates at the intersection of photography and print, engaging closely with processes of image-making, selfhood, and world-building.

The works presented originate from photographic film negatives created over a ten-year period across four countries. Fleming repeatedly returns to these images, developing a sustained dialogue with them over time. A quietness runs through the compositions, reflecting an evolving philosophy of attention, slowness, and deep listening. Crossing is the only work printed outside the traditional darkroom. In its lower left corner, a strand of dust appears against the horizon, an incidental mark revealed through scanning. For Fleming, this detail underscores the persistent presence of physical materiality, even within digitally mediated processes.

By working with newsprint, a material that shifts in tone under UV exposure, he reintroduces time as an active component of the printed image. His practice emphasizes change, impermanence, and the life of materials beyond the moment of production.

With nearly two decades of experience, Fleming works across print, drawing, video, sound, and performance. As a cultural worker, he has also produced exhibitions for museums, galleries, public institutions, and private clients over a similar span of time.