Peter Stranks

Peter Stranks has been a Toronto based photographer for forty years. A Ryerson University 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, working most recently on advertising for the film industry with celebrities like Steve Martin, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Eugene Levy, Harvey Keitel, David Thewlis, Marcia Gay Hardin, Andie MacDowell, Chyler Leigh, Julia Stiles, and Gina Rodriguez. In 2008, he completed a highly successful one man show at OMAH, where one of his pieces was acquired for the permanent collection. He revisited the gallery in 2017, and again in 2019, when one of his pieces was selected for inclusion in the prestigious annual Franklin Carmichael Canadian Landscape Exhibition. In 2017 he was awarded the Community Photography Award by Applied Arts Magazine, and his image was used for the cover. In 2009, Stranks accepted a full time position as professor at Georgian College in Barrie, Ontario where he brought innovative and creative techniques in lighting and self-expression to a whole new generation of shooters. The excitement and joy of being a photographer has brought Stranks back to his true love, and in 2018 he left teaching to devote his energies to shooting full time, shooting for various new productions for Netflix, Crave, National Geographic, Amazon Prime, Hallmark Media, Sony Pictures, Fox Entertainment, and CBS Television. Stranks is also writing a book titled, Photography, Creativity, and the Bag We Drag Behind Us, but finally acknowledges that writing is really, really hard.