Peter Lik
Tree of Serenitycirca 2013
Artist
Peter Lik (b. 1959) is an Australian-born fine art landscape photographer, best known for his panoramic images of nature. Born in Melbourne to Czech immigrant parents, Lik discovered photography at an early age and taught himself the craft using a Kodak Brownie camera. His passion for landscapes was deeply influenced by the natural beauty of Australia and later by the vast and diverse terrains of the United States, where he moved in the 1980s and where he has spent most of his professional career.
Lik's signature style blends dramatic natural lighting with meticulous composition, often using medium and large-format cameras and advanced printing techniques to create large-scale, museum-quality prints. His photographs characteristically feature dramatic weather, brilliantly saturated color, and the majestic scale of grand American landscapes, from the canyons of the Southwest to the coasts of the Pacific and the great national parks of the West. Working across the continent with the eye of both an artist and an adventurer, Lik has produced an extended body of images that have made him one of the most commercially successful landscape photographers of the contemporary era.
Lik has built a substantial international business around his photography, operating a chain of galleries dedicated exclusively to his work in major American cities and destination tourist markets. His prints are produced in limited editions at monumental scale and have achieved some of the highest reported prices in the history of photography, including his 2014 sale of Phantom for a widely publicized figure. Lik has also produced television programs featuring his photographic expeditions and published a number of substantial books devoted to his images. His work continues to attract a broad audience drawn to the grandeur and immediacy of his vision of the natural world.











