Influenced by his father who was a film projectionist and amateur photographer in Amsterdam, Peter Edens was gifted his first camera at the age of twelve and inherited his father’s 8mm movie camera two years later. When his father gave him his 35mm photo camera two years later, Peter started taking photography more seriously. After spending family holidays in the south of France throughout his youth, Peter worked on different local photo assignments before starting to travel in the mid 1970s. Peter describes his work as 'unplugged': He spends time with people & cultures, observes and captures moments in a real, simple and direct way. Whether his vision is humoristic or critical, the picture must be perfect right on the spot, in order to preserve its authentic spontaneity; a discipline that he had implemented from the early beginnings of his photography career and is still loyal to, to this day. Peter currently lives in the South of France, where recently exhibited in Sète in 2019 and at the Arles photography festival in 2020.