Peter Lik
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Peter Lik |
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Melbourne, Australia |
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Australian |
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1959 |
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Photography
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Biography
Peter Lik is a self taught photographer and is now famous for Australian landscape photography. While traveling in Alaska in 1994, Peter's interest in photography took a turn and he began to experiment with panoramic cameras.
Lik started his own business when he was in his early twenties in America and was photographing locations like Yosemite National Park for postcard shoots. He would go back to the postcard companies and sell them the shots. After seeing some of the other work on the market and how his own was being used only for advertising, he decided to publish a small range of postcards himself with the money he had saved up from traveling. Lik opened his first gallery in his hometown of Cairns, Australia, which was followed by a second in Port Douglas. He now has galleries in Noosa, Hawaii, California, Key West & Miami Florida, and Las Vegas.
In May 2008 the Peter Lik Group decided to close three of its Australian Galleries at Port Douglas, Sydney and Cairns due to a downturn in sales. |
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