Peter Steinhauer (b.1966) focuses on architecture within urban landscape, natural landscape, Asian faces and man-made structure. He lived and worked in Asia for 20 years and is currently based in San Francisco, USA.
For more than 9 years, Steinhauer called Hong Kong home. While many characterize the city as being impossibly fast-paced, money-oriented and concrete-smothered, Steinhauer’s passion compels him to visualize scenes of peacefulness and the underlying beauty of urban density. Walking through both narrow alleyways and open airs of the city, he looks for graphic elements within the natural landscape, man-made structures as well as the organized chaos that makes up our urban architecture. Hong Kong – Surface Unseen is a body of photographic work that exposes to us the many dimensions of Hong Kong that are within our sight, yet often go unnoticed and unseen.
Steinhauer is the recipient of numerous international photography awards, including a finalist for the 2014 and 2017 Lucie Awards, Ford Foundation grant for his multiyear work in Vietnam, Black and White Spider Award for Architecture, IPA and PX3 Paris awards, among others. His works have been included in Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong and other public and private collections.