Markus Akira Peters was born in 1970 in New York City to German and Japanese parents.

Growing up, he was surrounded by paintings, photographs, and art books collected by his father and making pictures soon became a central pursuit.

Photographers Dorothea Lange, August Sander, and Hiroshi Sugimoto, along with painters Mark Rothko, Edward Hopper, and Sesshū Tōyō have all shaped his artistic sensibility.

Markus began his studies in biology at Colgate University but soon returned to the visual arts, graduating with a degree in the field. While working in the family jewelry business, he studied filmmaking through a continuing education program at New York University, later building a career in documentary film with Albert Maysles, Nina Rosenblum, and Hava Kohav Beller, among many others.

After starting a family with his wife, Patricia, he purchased a used Yashicamat 124G medium-format camera and renewed his practice of film photography, just as iPhone photography was becoming widespread.

Today, he lives with his wife and two children in New York on the Long Island Sound, where he is rediscovering and scanning old rolls of film while continuing to explore new possibilities with both film and digital cameras.

He hopes you enjoy this site and return often to see his evolving work as it takes shape.