Amateur Photographer

American obsessed

As American photographer Peter van Agtmael (born 1981) explains: ‘There’s something that’s inherently awkward about the interview process and being asked the questions and talking the whole time.

‘I always feel awkward, like shit, am I talking too much and I haven’t even started talking. You can see my neurosis on full display.’

Perhaps it’s necessary for the 2003 Yale University graduate, who has a degree in history, to be this way to produce the photographs he does. His latest book, (Thames & Hudson) is fuelled

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