Profiles
While she prides herself on being a versatile writer, profiles on people fill Peta’s portfolio as well as an upcoming book and traveling exhibit, what I thought I saw. Peta approaches her subjects with a desire to understand and learn; in turn, she relates the individual’s unique perspectives and depth of personality to her readers.
Utah's Maverick Mayor
No matter how unpopular he may be, the President of the United States can usually count on a respectful, if not a warm, welcome from local officials wherever he visits in the nation. And when he travels to what is arguably the reddest state in the nation, Utah, he would normally expect a particularly hearty greeting. Read the Time Magazine Article
Barclay Butera
"I picked this up on Portabello Street in London. "Barclay Butera carefully hands me a 19th century clock, hands frozen in time. "Now watch this" continues Butera, with the excitement of a kid with a new card trick. He carefully pries open the back of the clock and pulls out the center piece. As Butera holds the relic up, it is easy to imagine the watch dangling from the breast pocket of a Dicken's character. "It's not at all what you expected, is it?" View the Full Article in Park City MagazineA Window Or A Lens?
The sun was rising over the rough-cut peaks in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska, as David Schultz brought the crimson sky and jagged mountain silhouette into focus on his 35 mm camera. With a click, the moment became a still life. It wasn't until Schultz climbed back into his pick-up truck and switched on the radio that he heard a plane had slammed into the first World Trade Center tower. View the Full ArticleBlending the Borders Between Art and Life
Reflective, she stood there, silent and alone, in front of her coffin. Shrouded beneath an embroidered piece of linen and crossed by her father’s sword, her coffin lay beneath the backdrop of an 18th century Spanish tapestry that belonged to her grandparents. Before her were all the necessary tools and artifacts that had made her temporal life so rich. View the Full ArticleBreaking Records in Science
Jerry Kaplan is caught between two worlds, one of which most of us can’t even see. Captivated by the boundaries between the internal world of a cell and the world outside it, Kaplan has become a liaison-of-sorts for those of us who know little about the vital microbe world that circulates within us, let alone how to pronounce the “landmarks” of such obscure geography: transporters, ferroportin, hepcidin, endocytic vesicles. View the Full Article
