Peter Yan Studio
photography prints
Stories from behind the camera, from a morning with Lao Huang on the Li River to a 3:30am climb up Mt Amos, plus practical guides to choosing, framing and hanging photography at home or at work.
29 August 2026
Australia Is Too Big for One Photograph
Australia is difficult to photograph as one place. The distances are too large. The landscapes change too quickly. Every time you think you understand...
29 August 2026
Where Sydney Meets the Sea
Sydney's ocean pools sit in a strange position. They are part swimming pool, part coastline. From the ground, they are places to swim. From...
29 August 2026
Florence Always Leads Back to the Duomo
There are cities where you can walk for hours without one building dominating the view. Florence isn't one of them. The Duomo keeps finding...
29 August 2026
London Is Always Looking Back
London is one of those cities where it is almost impossible to photograph only the present. The city doesn't seem particularly interested in choosing...
29 August 2026
Hong Kong Is Built in Layers
Hong Kong can feel almost impossible to take in at once. There is always something behind something else. The city doesn't really spread out....
29 August 2026
Italy Never Looks Like One Place
Italy is difficult to describe through a single photograph. Every time I travel through another part of the country, the visual language seems to...
29 August 2026
Venice Is Never Still
Venice is one of those places where almost everything looks as though it has been there forever. The city feels ancient. The photograph is...
29 August 2026
New York Doesn't Give You an Empty Frame
New York is one of the hardest cities to simplify. Almost everywhere you point a camera, something else enters the frame. The city doesn't...
29 August 2026
Mount Fuji Is Never Just the Mountain
Mount Fuji might be one of the easiest mountains in the world to recognise. That doesn't make it easy to photograph. My favourite photographs...
29 August 2026
Japan, Somewhere Between Stillness and Noise
Japan is one of those places I never seem to finish photographing. Every time I think I understand what draws me to it, something...
29 August 2026
Cinque Terre, Built Into the Landscape
Cinque Terre is one of those places that seems almost too perfectly arranged to be real. From above, the scale changes completely.
29 August 2026
The Amalfi Coast Beyond the Postcard
There are some places that feel familiar before you have ever been there. The Amalfi Coast is one of them. How do you photograph...
