Peter Beard

The American artist, writer, diarist, and photographer worked and lived in Kenya, Montauk, and New York City. His subjects were often animals in Africa, and his journals frequently contained the images he captured. In 1960, his collection was published and displayed. Peter started making photographs and kept a diary as a young boy. After he graduated from Pomfret School, he originally planned to take a medical degree but later on switch to art history. He graduated from a Business Administration course at Yale University.

Peter worked with huge magazines, including Elle and Vogue. Along with his wife, Nejma Beard, they started The Peter Beard Studio and Archive. It was a major source of artwork for Peter. The Archive became a collection of published and unpublished visual and written material from the life of an artist. Woefully, Peter passed away on April 19, 2020.