Peter Pezzella

I was the kid who tinkered with things. When I found something mechanical and interesting, I played with it to see how it worked. This is how my interest and career in photography developed. When I was 15, my father brought home a 35mm camera that he used for his job. I found the knobs, lens, and how it worked intriguing. I began to “play” with it on the weekends, thinking, “This is cool”. While playing High School football I sustained an injury and was sidelined. I started bringing the camera with me to take photos from the sideline. And then “IT” happened, a player saw a photograph I took of him on the field and wanted to buy it. “What?”, I can make money from this?” I sold it to him for $5.00, and that was how my lifelong career in photography began, despite my father’s concerns about becoming a “starving artist”.

I went to a photography school and started my 1st job as an assistant to a fashion photographer in NYC in 1984. After a few years in fashion photography, I realized I was more interested in product photography. Since then, I found myself working in product photography, catalogs, always adjusting to the changes in the business and the economy.