Peter Lik

http://www.lik.com/

Same photograph as previously shown by Rodney Lough

Peter Lik stands at the summit of landscape photography. World-renowned, highly awarded, and boasting a huge international following, Lik's journey had humble origins. Born in Melbourne, Australia, to Czech immigrants, it was his parents' gift of a Kodak Brownie camera on his eighth birthday that set young Peter's course.

Entirely self-taught, Lik worked hard at his craft before making a life-changing decision: to come to the United States in 1984. A defining moment in Lik's life came when he was introduced to the medium format panoramic camera. This larger-than-life camera compelled Peter to rise to its challenge to "Go big or go home."

He has sold hundreds of millions of dollars of his artwork, has 13 galleries of his own and counts presidents and celebrities among his many collectors. Exposure from his NBC produced TV series, "From the Edge with Peter Lik", has established Lik as a household name.

Two more landmarks for Lik were the world record sale of his photograph "One," for $1 million and the exhibition of two of his iconic images, "Ghost" and "Inner Peace," in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C.

Keith Pietrak