Keld Helmer Peterson

Keld Peterson was a Danish Photographer who had an interest in abstract photography in the 1940’s – 1950’s. His photography involves strong contrast levels between white and black. His work manly evolves around building structures and defined shapes. He was greatly influenced by the industrial machines/architecture during his time.

A mood board of Keld Helmer Peterson’s work:

As you can see his work has great depth in his tonal range of light to dark. he almost captures just shapes that you can barely make out what they are. His work is almost the definition of abstract black on white composition images.

Here is my work before editing on photoshop. I chose to take images of sides of buildings and rails in town as for Keld’s work I thought it would link well with shape and abstract photography.

Adobe Photoshop / Best 4 Photos

Using the threshold icon (image – adjustments – threshold) in photoshop I can create an image inspired by Keld Peterson. This first image can be found in my next four images I took below;