Peter Funch

In this film photographer Peter Funch discusses his work and latest Book project entitled "Babel Tales", a look at the urban street life of New York City.

With Babel Tales, Funch shot photos with strong beautiful themes of various passersby at the exact same spots so he could compose the results into single images in Photoshop into one large piece. For example, several photos of people with brown manila envelopes are stitched together into a composite image showing those busy envelope carriers all in one incredible photo, as if they were walking on the street at the same time. He describes his images like that of a theater production. "It's like a photo shot over a long period time, I like to think of it as a theater production, the foreground, the background and the actors" he says. After years of objective photojournalism, Funch finds his work now to be refreshing, creative and subjective. "I'm no longer interested in being objective, I enjoy building up my images from more than one shot, then manipulating them in Photoshop," he notes. Funch's stylistically appealing photos are very much his interpretation of how people relate to each other without being in the same place at the same time.

"I thought of the image I wanted before photographing it. I focused on how we see each other apart from race or age or anything else." A graduate of the Danish School of Journalism in 1999, Funch has been featured in several solo and group exhibitions, both in the U.S. and overseas.