Peter Hungerford

I’m Peter Hungerford — a photographer, drawn to the edges of machine vision, memory, and perception. My work explores how AI not only alters the image but infiltrates how we see, remember, and assign meaning. I use photography as a base, but often distort or reconfigure it through AI systems, drawing on ideas from philosophy and science to question who or what is really creating.

Much of my recent work focuses on the figure of the parasite — a logic that unsettles control, that feeds, distorts, and reveals. I’m especially interested in the glitches and feedback loops that emerge when human intention meets machine drift.

I’m currently completing a BA in Photography at the Open College of the Arts (UK). The Host’s Blind Spot brings together my thinking and making so far: an evolving body of work that plays with authorship, disruption, and the strange aesthetics of shared agency.

I earned a DPhil in Physics at the University of Sussex and subsequently conducted nuclear spectroscopy research at the Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble and Technical University, Munich. This experience combined with extensive IT background strongly influences my artistic work.

I live in Switzerland with my wife and when not making images like to mountain bike, climb, ski, sail…