Peter Stranks

Brief Biography

Peter Stranks has worked on national advertising campaigns, magazine covers and editorial features for over two decades, working most recently on advertising for the film industry with celebrities like Steve Martin, Drew Barrymore, Hilary Duff, Eugene Levy and Harvey Keitel.

ARTIST WEBSITE: www.stranks.com

Peter Stranks is a Toronto based photographer living with his wife and two children in Orillia. A Ryerson graduate, his assignments have taken him throughout North America and as far away as Morocco. Stranks has worked on national advertising campaigns, magazine covers and editorial features for over two decades, working most recently on advertising for the film industry with celebrities like Steve Martin, Drew Barrymore, Hilary Duff, Eugene Levy and Harvey Keitel. He has recently completed a highly successful one man show at OMAH, where one of his pieces was acquired for the permanent collection. He has taught in recent years at the Canadian Photographic
Centre in Toronto where the Globe & Mail has referred to him as an " inspiring instructor. " For Dove and the Campaign for Real Beauty, he co-taught a week-end workshop that led thirty girls ages 8 to 15 to shoot over 5000 images that ultimately became the 2007 Dove Calendar for Real Beauty. Peter currently teaches full time in the Digital Photography program at Georgian College in Barrie.