Peter Bennetts

In a climate that too easily confuses exaggerated form and distorted space, for the genuine strength of expression embedded in all fine architecture, Peter Bennetts is one of the few photographers who consistently know the difference. Rather than exploit the hollow tricks of photographic illusion, Bennetts interprets and distills the real qualities of a project, in such a way that smoke and mirrors are not required.

Andrew Mackenzie
Editor
AR

Engaging the industry reader as well as the wider community is a vital yet increasingly challenging role for an architectural publication such as MONUMENT. Architectural photographer Peter Bennetts understands this crucial role in educating our readers about the importance of investing in the quality of their environments. While capturing the inherent design quality of the buildings he photographs, Peter also manages to imbue each image with a sense of the power that good modern architecture has in contributing to our cultural identity.

Fleur Watson
Editor
MONUMENT

UTS Gallery
Level 4, 702 Harris Street Ultimo Sydney
The Trouble with the Weather: a southern response
3 July - 3 August 2007
"A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves." 
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
Changing weather has spelt trouble before. But now the trouble is that we don't quite know what to make of it, and it feels urgent. As the media, climatologists, environmentalists and politicians vie to shape our understanding and emotional responses to what we perceive and know, global warming reverberates through every level of culture. The uneasy relationship between man and nature is unsettled once more.
This exhibition brings together artists to provide a southern response to the trouble with the weather -- aesthetically, conceptually, discursively and pataphysically.
Isabel Aranda (Chile), Jonathan Bottrell Jones (Aus) & Jim Vivieaere (NZ/Cook Islands), Andres Burbano (Colombia), Peter Bennetts (Aus), Elizabeth Day (Aus), Muriel Frega (Argentina), David Haines (Aus) & Joyce Hinterding (Aus), Niki Hastings-McFall (NZ/Samoa), Zina Kaye (Aus), Dani Marti (Aus), Maria Miranda (Aus) & Norie Neumark (Aus), Jason Nelson (Aus), Regina Pinto (Brazil), Janine Randerson (NZ), John Tonkin (Aus), H J Wedge (Aus).
Co-curated by Jacqueline Bosscher, Maria Miranda & Norie Neumark


EDITORIAL: Magazine and editorial clients include AR, Architecture Australia, Artichoke, Australian Style, Bauwelt (Germany), Casabella (Italy), Conde Nast Traveller (UK), Domain, Dwell, Figaro (France), Good Weekend, Hauser (Germany), I.D, La Tribune (France), Le Monde (France), Le Nouvel Observateur (France), Life, Melbourne Magazine, Mother Jones (USA), Metropolis, National Geographic (USA), Greenpages, The Age, The Australian, The Big Issue (AU & UK), The Bulletin, The Guardian (UK), The Herald (UK), The Independent (UK), The Sydney Morning Herald, Canadian Business, The Australian Financial Review, Time Magazine, Paris Match, Playboy (Japan), Point de Vue (France), Pol Oxygen, the Sierra Club (USA), Stern (Germany), Travel + Leisure (USA), Vogue France, Vogue Living, (Australia), Wallpaper * and Wired (USA).


BOOKS: Time & Tide, The islands of Tuvalu, A large format book of the photographer's work with text by Tony Wheeler featuring the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu was published by Lonely Planet in November 2001. Tuvalu is a nation of low lying coral atolls and islands whose existence is threatened by climate change and rising sea levels. Peter has been a frequent visitor to country, documenting its changing patterns of life and the environment.
With author Catherin Bull, Peter was the photographer of New Conversations with the Australian landscape. Conversations is an exploration of contemporary Landscape Architecture as a response to the Australia's environment.
Conversations was awarded 2004 ASLA PROFESSIONAL AWARDS - COMMUNICATIONS AWARD OF MERIT
‘A beautifully presented assemblage showing the great diversity of works of landscape architecture. High quality photography and clear text reveal the beauty and diversity of the natural and man-made landscape of Australia.' 2004 Professional Awards Jury Comments
Peter's been a contributor to many books published in Australia and around the world. Book contributions include; the Phaidon Atlas of World Architecture, Lonely Planet's The Travel Book; A journey through every Country, The Cities Book and the One Planet series.