Frost On My Windows by Peter Andrew Jeschke

I have spent the past eight winters capturing images of natural exterior light refracting through frost crystals that grow on my old farmhouse windows. The frost grows when warm moist air escapes the house at night and freezes upon contact with the outer frigid glass. Window frost crystals are only the tiniest fraction of an inch thick, yet their infinitely varied crystalline structures profoundly affect the passage of light, producing strikingly colorful compositions with three-dimensional depth effects. Alas......with the new day’s warmth.....this fantastical icy artwork melts and vanishes in the sun.

Following are some examples of Nature’s artwork, created in the form of wood-framed paintings, on glass substrates, using clear water as a medium, then backlit with Nature’s own brilliant everchanging colors. Image 0500 below shows the full canvas on which Nature works - a glass windowpane about 14.5 inches (37 cm) across. I capture my images from inside the house with no artificial light. I have not manipulated these images except to crop, adjust tone and clean up distracting imperfections in the old glass. The colors, shapes, forms and compositions are created by Nature. Much more of the process and a full analysis of why I believe Nature can create art is in my upcoming “Frost On My Windows” coffee table book.

Peter Andrew Jeschke
Peter has taken photographs since he was a teenager, but only much later in life has he turned photography into a profession. He explains his long wait by saying, “I could not in good conscience subject my family to a “starving artist” phase.” After enrolling in college at age 25, he pursued his BSc and MSc in Earth Sciences at the University of New Hampshire and had a long and successful professional career as a geophysicist. Peter and his wife shuttle between their homes in New Hampshire, USA and Meghalaya, India.

Peter is happiest practicing miksang (contemplative photography), anywhere quiet, capturing images of bugs, cracks in paint, dew drops, floating leaves or patterns in beach sand. He is currently exploring for and documenting “natural art” formed without intent by natural or accidental processes.

Peter began showing photographic prints of frost in galleries in 2018. In 2021, his first major solo exhibition took place at Stride Arts Exhibition Hall in New York City. In 2024, he began submitting his work to photography contests. As of this writing he is a finalist in the 2024 Nature Photographer of the Year Award in the Landscape and Portfolio categories and is on the shortlist in the 2024 Close-up Photographer of the Year competition in the Intimate Landscape and Studio Art categories. Peter was awarded six titles in Exposure One’s 2024 Photographer of the Year contest: Photographer of the Year in the Nature and Photojournalism categories; the People’s Choice in the Portrait and Photojournalism categories; a Silver in the Portrait category; and a Bronze in the Travel category. He won the Director’s Award in PhotoPlace Gallery’s 2024 Abstraction Exhibition.
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Cedric Roux: Before Rebirth

By Cedric Roux

Publisher : ODYSSEE

2024 | 96 pages

Empty storefronts dot the downtown, while massive brick tobacco warehouses stretch the length of city blocks—abandoned and awaiting creative reuse. Wilson, North Carolina, feels frozen in the 1970s. Invited by the Eye on Main Street festival, photographer Cedric Roux made several trips to this enigmatic town. For a photographer used to capturing the vibrant energy of New York City streets—his first book, My Wonderland (now sold out), vividly chronicled the bustling metropolis—his initial encounter with Wilson was a profound shock.

Expecting a town in the midst of a vibrant renaissance, Roux wandered Wilson daily, exploring its diverse areas: downtown, affluent suburbs, and struggling neighborhoods. On either side of the railroad tracks that symbolically and socially divide the city, he sought a light that might suggest an emerging revival..

In his latest book, Before Rebirth, Roux captures this sense of disconnection, using his lens to explore a promise not yet realized. With a population of just 47,000, Wilson is a far cry from Manhattan’s 1.5 million. Used to the dense human energy that fuels his photographic style, Roux found himself reimagining his approach. His work took on a more stripped-down, documentary aesthetic, yet it remains deeply rooted in place and retains the distinctive palette and framing that define his vision..

In collaboration with artistic director Jean-Matthieu Gautier, Roux drew from his imagination and visual archives to craft a narrative that stays true to his photographic roots while stepping far beyond his usual realm.

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John Divola: San Fernando Valley

By John Divola

Publisher : Nazraeli Press

2024 | 60 pages

From the publisher: San Fernando Valley is where John Divola was born and raised, and it served as both backdrop and subject for his earliest, serious photographic explorations, made during the early 1970s. This previously unpublished body of work shows “the Valley” through the eyes of a young photographer who would soon become an internationally-recognized artist with the exhibition and publication of his much more conceptual “Zuma” series. The black and white photographs in “San Fernando Valley” comprise a series of subject groupings which, pulled together, show early manifestations of the deadpan humor and the ability to capture everyday scenes wrapped in loneliness, for which Divola is now well-known. The book is also, and not incidentally, a fascinating record of a quintessentially 1970s Los Angeles culture. John Divola’s work is the subject of numerous books and catalogues. Widely exhibited and collected throughout the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia, Divola’s photographs are included in the permanent collections of many public and private institutions, including those of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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Cig Harvey: Emerald Drifters

By Cig Harvey

Publisher : The Monacelli Press

2025 | 224 pages

Following her celebrated monograph Blue Violet (Monacelli, 2021), photographer Cig Harvey continues her personal study of sensory experience, focusing on the ephemeral nature of light, pigment, and vision. Her latest photographs are lush tableaux of her signature subjects – flora, cakes, domestic interiors, and the human figure in landscape – accompanied by prose vignettes on the science and art of color, written in her vibrant, intimate style. Featuring an afterword by award-winning novelist and poet Ocean Vuong, Emerald Drifters is a catalogue of pleasures and heartbreaks, and ‘an urgent call to live.’

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Helmut Newton. Berlin, Berlin

By Helmut Newton

Publisher : Taschen

2025 | 244 pages

Born in Berlin in 1920, Helmut Newton trained as a teenager with legendary photographer Yva, following her lead into the enticing pastures of fashion, portraiture and nudes. Forced to flee the Nazis aged only 18, Newton never left Berlin behind. After his career exploded in Paris in the 1960s, he returned regularly to shoot for magazines like Constanze, Adam, Vogue, Condé Nast's Traveler, ZEITmagazin, Männer Vogue, Max and the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin as well as his own magazine Helmut Newton’s Illustrated. In 1979, the newly relaunched German Vogue commissioned him to retrace the footsteps of his youth to capture the fashion moment. The resulting portfolio, Berlin, Berlin!, inspired the title of the exhibition which celebrates 20 years of the Helmut Newton Foundation. This collection includes Newton’s most iconic Berlin images, as well as many unknown shots from the 1930s to the 2000s: nightcrawlers in uber-cool clubs and restaurants, nude portraits in the boarding houses he knew from his youth, and the Berlin film scene, featuring Hanna Schygulla and Wim Wenders at the Berlin Wall, John Malkovich and David Bowie. In October 2003, only months before his death, Newton moved large parts of his archive to his new foundation, housed in the Museum of Photography beside the Zoologischer Garten station―the very station from which he fled Berlin in the winter of 1938. This publication thus closes a circle in the story of his extraordinary life and work.

Frost On My Windows by Peter Andrew Jeschke

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