Young Immigrant Mother with her Family, Brooklyn, 1976

Young Immigrant  Mother with her Family, Brooklyn, 1976

Italian-American Teenagers, Brooklyn, 1977

Italian-American Teenagers, Brooklyn, 1977

Women from Africa Outside her Store, Brooklyn, 1977

Women from Africa Outside her Store, Brooklyn, 1977

Peter Bellamy lives in New York.  He primarily shoots portraits, as well as landscapes in both urban and wilderness environments.  In addition to his commissioned portraits, he has a fine art printing business for select photographers, including Elliott Erwitt. After art school, he worked for Orson Welles and was Louise Bourgeois’s personal photographer for many years.   His projects include documentary portraits set in 1970’s Brooklyn; The Artist Project, Portraits of the Real Art World / New York Artists 1981-1990 (published 1991); Addict’s Damn (published 1995); wilderness photographs set in the North American west; and a current, ongoing playwright portrait project.

Teenage Couple, Brooklyn, 1977

Teenage Couple, Brooklyn, 1977

Immigrant Kids, Brooklyn, 1976

Immigrant Kids, Brooklyn, 1976

Young Women Sitting on a Stoop, Brooklyn, 1976

Young Women Sitting on a Stoop, Brooklyn, 1976

A Bunch of Kids, Brooklyn, 1977

A Bunch of Kids, Brooklyn, 1977

Boy on Roller Skates, Brooklyn, 1977

Boy on Roller Skates, Brooklyn, 1977

Young Man, Staten Island, 1977, #2

Young Man, Staten Island, 1977, #2

Young Woman, Brooklyn, 1977

Young Woman, Brooklyn, 1977

Young Man with Iron Cross, Brooklyn 1978

Young Man with Iron Cross, Brooklyn 1978

Two Friends, Brooklyn, 1977

Two Friends, Brooklyn, 1977

Man in a Bar, with Bugs Bunny, Brooklyn, 1976

Man in a Bar, with Bugs Bunny, Brooklyn, 1976

Girl Sitting on Stoop with Bottle Collection, Brooklyn, 1978

Girl Sitting on Stoop with Bottle Collection,  Brooklyn, 1978

Mother with her Sister and her Baby Girl, Brooklyn 1978

Mother with her Sister and her Baby Girl, 1978,

Brooklyn

(detail)

13 Kids Who All Lived on the Same Block, Brooklyn, 1977

13 Kids Who All Lived on the Same Block, Brooklyn, 1977

Brooklyn Kids, Sunset Park, 1978

Brooklyn Kids, Sunset Park, 1978

My Great-Uncle Frank Walton and His Grandson Peter Love, Brooklyn Heights, 1977

My Great-Uncle Frank Walton and His Grandson Peter Love, Brooklyn Heights, 1977