- Born
- Height6′ 1″ (1.85 m)
- 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.
- IMDb mini biography by: Peter Stranks
- SpouseSusan Exton-Stranks(June 20, 1991 - present) (2 children)
- Children
- Peter is a member of IATSE Local 667
- Peter received his BAA in Photography from Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada in 1987.
- Every day during the filming of "Cheaper By The Dozen 2" Stranks would display a new photograph highlighting some aspect of the show. Called "The Daily Shot", it featured the crew in action, behind the scenes, or stills of the scene being shot. Since that time, he has gone on to do it on every feature he has worked on, including American Pie's "The Naked Mile" and "The Beta House" as well as HBO's Grey Gardens.
- Stranks worked as a Cinematographer for the first time in 2020, when he shot the first two episodes of a webisode series written and starred in by his daughter Sadie Stranks. His wife Susan Exton Stranks directed it. It was shot entirely during the pandemic on their home property under COVID safe guidelines.
- Stranks is married to hairstylist IATSE 873 member Susan Exton Stranks. Stranks was a successful editorial and advertising photographer, and Susan suggested that if he shot stills for film, they might see more of each other. So he did, but after over twenty six years in the business, they have only done six projects together. The latest one, The Way Home - Season 2, was even more unique, in that their daughter Sadie Stranks performed as a background performer in one of the episodes... so three out of the four family members worked on set at the same time.
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