Peta Sarkis Bio & Artist Statement
Peta Sarkis was born in 1966 in South Africa and moved to New Zealand in the early 1990’s. She completed a degree in Strategic Marketing & International Management (First Class Hons) and a graduate diploma in Direct Marketing while in New Zealand. She followed a career in Marketing for the next eight years in New Zealand and Australia. Peta returned to Johannesburg by 2000 working in the Direct Selling industry as a forecaster and later a Fragrance Category Manager.
In 2006, Peta left the corporate environment, moving to Cape Town to pursue a life as a photographer and curator. Since September 2006, she has worked as a Gallery Manager and Curator, part-time gallery owner and photographer, taking on various projects and challenges each year.
In 2006, she entered her first photographic competition, reaching the finals of the Sasol New Signature Competition with an image of two white street children in Kalk Bay, Cape Town.
From 2007 to 2009, Peta explored a body of self-portrait nudes while living in one of Kalk Bay’s historical buildings. A bit of a purist – she believed in using only the natural light to capture the life stage of her SELF - no Photoshop was used in any of the single image captures. Peta has received much praise for a body of work that is unique, honest, emotive and deeply personal.
In 2011, Peta completed a self-designed photographic challenge – 100days100beaches, capturing 100 of Cape Town’s spectacular beaches, bays or points in 100 consecutive days, regardless of weather or conditions, and again using no Photoshop. Peta was sponsored to exhibition of all 100 images in Germany in 2011 and invited to exhibit at the Month of Photography in Cape Town in 2012. The Mayor of Cape Town, Patricia de Lille buying three of the prints for her offices.
CHALLENGES & EXHIBITIONS
2014 21days21sunrises challenge
2013 47days47horserides challenge
2012 46days46hikes46years challenge
2012 100days100beaches exhibition, Month of Photography, Cape Town
2011 100days100beaches exhibition, Germany
2011 100days100beaches challenge
2010 all wOMan, galleryOM, Kalk Bay, Cape Town
2010 galleryOM, Kalk Bay, Cape Town
2010 Cedar Tree Gallery, St James, Cape Town
2009 The AVA Gallery, Cape Town
2009 Cedar Tree Gallery, St James, Cape Town
2006 Finalist Sasol New Signature
A documentary photo-pilgrimage challenge capturing 100 beaches in 100 consecutive days in Cape Town. No Photoshop was used to enhance these images in anyway - believing more in the purist of photography than relying on Photoshop to fix errors.
The project was posted daily on facebook with a short write up on each days adventure and followed my fans all over the world for the full 100 days.
Peta Sarkis was born in 1966 in South Africa and moved to New Zealand in the early 1990’s. She completed a degree in Strategic Marketing & International Management (First Class Hons) and a graduate diploma in Direct Marketing while in New Zealand. She followed a career in Marketing for the next eight years in New Zealand and Australia. Peta returned to Johannesburg by 2000 working in the Direct Selling industry as a forecaster and later a Fragrance Category Manager.
In 2006, Peta left the corporate environment, moving to Cape Town to pursue a life as a photographer and curator. Since September 2006, she has worked as a Gallery Manager and Curator, part-time gallery owner and photographer, taking on various projects and challenges each year.
In 2006, she entered her first photographic competition, reaching the finals of the Sasol New Signature Competition with an image of two white street children in Kalk Bay, Cape Town.
From 2007 to 2009, Peta explored a body of self-portrait nudes while living in one of Kalk Bay’s historical buildings. A bit of a purist – she believed in using only the natural light to capture the life stage of her SELF - no Photoshop was used in any of the single image captures. Peta has received much praise for a body of work that is unique, honest, emotive and deeply personal.
In 2011, Peta completed a self-designed photographic challenge – 100days100beaches, capturing 100 of Cape Town’s spectacular beaches, bays or points in 100 consecutive days, regardless of weather or conditions, and again using no Photoshop. Peta was sponsored to exhibition of all 100 images in Germany in 2011 and invited to exhibit at the Month of Photography in Cape Town in 2012. The Mayor of Cape Town, Patricia de Lille buying three of the prints for her offices.
CHALLENGES & EXHIBITIONS
2014 21days21sunrises challenge
2013 47days47horserides challenge
2012 46days46hikes46years challenge
2012 100days100beaches exhibition, Month of Photography, Cape Town
2011 100days100beaches exhibition, Germany
2011 100days100beaches challenge
2010 all wOMan, galleryOM, Kalk Bay, Cape Town
2010 galleryOM, Kalk Bay, Cape Town
2010 Cedar Tree Gallery, St James, Cape Town
2009 The AVA Gallery, Cape Town
2009 Cedar Tree Gallery, St James, Cape Town
2006 Finalist Sasol New Signature
A documentary photo-pilgrimage challenge capturing 100 beaches in 100 consecutive days in Cape Town. No Photoshop was used to enhance these images in anyway - believing more in the purist of photography than relying on Photoshop to fix errors.
The project was posted daily on facebook with a short write up on each days adventure and followed my fans all over the world for the full 100 days.
