Andrew Peters

This introduction will open with a very lofty but very true claim about Peters, and the claim is this: Andrew James Peters has defined Monster Children’s photographic style. Again, lofty, but true. I’m hard pressed to think of someone apart from the two founders, Campbell and Chris, who has had a greater influence on this magazine’s visual identity. Out of our twenty long years, Peters has been around for eighteen? Nineteen of those? To put it even more imprecisely but more understandably: Andrew Peters has been a massive part of Monster Children for as long as we can remember. 

Peters’ work is insightful and intimate, and considers not just the subject, but the world that they exist in. It is not only a kickflip - it is a setting and an environment and a time and a place. People walk by, the aging brick of the buildings in the background offer context as to the difficulty, but also something more abstract: the mood of the trick. His portraiture is candid and playful and without his work, we’d be lost. Children wandering in the dark with no sense of composition or gradient or the proper way to set up a flash.