Doug Peters Photography Portfolio – Ambient Light
Doug Peters
New Zealand based music photographer
doug@ambientlightblog.com
+6427 353 5761
- 25+ years experience shooting live music and low light events
- Experienced shooting both film and digital files
- Capable of fast turnaround at the highest quality
- Available for individual shows through to full tours
- Is capable of working to a brief as well as independently
AWARDS / HONOURS:
2024: Aotearoa Music Photographer Of The Year 2024 – People’s Choice Winner
2021: Aotearoa Music Photographer Of The Year 2021 – Runner Up
2007: NZIPP Professional Photography Awards – 1 Silver Award, 7 Bronze awards in assorted categories.
2004: Adv. Dip. Professional Photographic Techniques – UCOL Palmerston North
2003: NZIPP Professional Photography Awards – Bronze award in the student category.
2002: Kodak Photographic Scholarship for skills in Digital Retouching
2001: Leica Photographic Scholarship for Photographic Excellence
2001: NZIPP Professional Photography Awards – Silver award in the Black and White category, hand printed using traditional wet darkroom techniques.
PORTFOLIO
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Spark Arena
Heavy Metal Crowd
Ed Sheeran
PJ Harvey
ZZ Top
Taylor Swift
Antemasque
AC/DC
RATSO
Soundgarden
My Chemical Romance
P!nk
Rod Stewart
Slipknot
Lamb Of God
Tami Neilson
Steel Panther
Cat Stevens / Yusuf
Faith No More
The National
Yelawolf
Whitesnake
Public Enemy
Motörhead
Björk
Rage Against The Machine
Grace Jones
Poison
Katy Perry
KISS
Queen & Adam Lambert
The Datsuns
Dick Dynamite
Coldplay
Florence and the Machine
Tech N9ne
Franz Ferdinand
Genitorturers
Carl Cox
Rob “Blasko” Nicholson (Rob Zombie / Ozzy Osbourne)
Def Leppard
Wu-Tang Clan
The Supersuckers
Green Day
Lindsey Stirling
Head Like A Hole
Julia Deans / Fur Patrol
A Day To Remember
Dresden Dolls
Ellie Goulding
Beck
Foo Fighters
Roger Waters
Vengaboys
Descendents
Arctic Monkeys
Beach House
Guns ‘N Roses
Brooke Candy
Mt Smart Stadium
Bryan Adams
B*Witched
Cradle Of Filth
Mayhem
Dimmu Borgir
Behemoth
Machine Gun Kelly
Salt-N-Pepa
Usher
G Flip
Dead Kennedys
Villainy
Greta Van Fleet
Justin Bieber
Limp Bizkit
Joji
Lou Bega
Naughty By Nature
Marlon Williams
Miss June
Mura Masa
Panic At The Disco
Pendulum
Skrillex
Peter Murphy
The Jesus And Mary Chain
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Machine Head
Slayer
Stevie Stone
Queens Of The Stone Age
Tyla Yaweh
Billie Eilish
Melanie Martinez
Wolf Alice
Filter
Written by Wolves
Billy Idol
Kraftwerk
Lizzo
Rico Nasty
Disturbed
U2
IDLES
Venice
Amanda Palmer
Reb Fountain
Post Malone
Devilskin
Th’ Dudes
Avantdale Bowling Club
Nita Strauss
Airbourne
Kojaque
Fly My Pretties
MC50
The Hu
grandson
Orville Peck
Yungblud
Chelsea Wolfe
Perfume Genius
The Corrs
The Bronx
Ville Valo
Liam Gallagher
Ice Spice
Peaches
Cate Le Bon
Nessa Barrett
Jimmy Barnes
JPEGmafia
Fear Factory
Blink-182
Hanabie.
JBEE
Teddy Swims
Eagles of Death Metal
Loyle Carner
Larkin Poe
Weyes Blood
Ho99o9
Sam Smith
Taylor Roche
Frank Turner
Macklemore
Ashanti
BIOGRAPHY:
Doug Peters has a long history with photography, from growing up documenting family events and holidays with his trusty Kodak point and shoot with the broken plastic lens, through to eventually gaining an advanced degree in photography, concentrating in film photography, studio lighting and advanced darkroom techniques.
Doug then worked as a retoucher for a prominent portrait photographer by day, while skulking around in dimly lit clubs in Wellington and Palmerston North photographing bands by night. The music photography bug had well and truly sunk its teeth deep into his soul.
Taking a few years off to raise his son, Doug had a short-lived career as a wedding and portrait photographer in a small town in central NZ, but pined for his days shooting musicians – live gigs being few and far between. A move to Auckland gave him the opportunity to once again immerse himself in the live music scene at night (the all important day job still a very necessary evil for a NZ based music photographer).
He began shooting live shows for numerous music media outlets – the caliber of artists increasing with every show. Being able to photograph Gary Numan performing one of his favourite albums live as one of his first gigs in Auckland was a particularly important moment for Doug, and just a taste of what was to come. Eventually, wanting to give back to the industry and to help other up and coming music photographers gain experience shooting gigs, Doug formed Ambient Light – a website covering anything music related. He slowly put together a team of talented photographers and writers that he now considers family. Because of Ambient Light, he has been able to photograph some of the biggest names in music, including Elton John, U2, Billie Eilish, Iron Maiden, Coldplay, KISS, Ed Sheeran, Grace Jones and the Foo Fighters to name but a few.
Doug has been shooting live music for over twenty five years now, and was the editor as well as sometimes photographer of Ambient Light for over seven years. These days, he works in the television industry, and in his spare time dabbles in fashion photography shooting for the website thisismeagankerr.com. Doug is a staunch Leica user with various lenses for all his live music photography, and has recently invested in the Leica medium format digital system for his portrait and fashion work. He also has a soft spot for old, manual focus lenses found in op-shops and can often be found chasing bugs and fungi around in his garden trying to get THE shot.
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