Arturo Peralta-Ramos III

Photography has been a passion of Arturo’s since shooting his first images as a child with his dad’s Brownie and, later, Rolleiflex, cameras. He has studied at workshops around the US and abroad under Jay Maisel, James Balog, Joe McNally, Tom Mangelsen, Bill Allen, Chris Johns, Jim Richardson, Rich Clarkson and Nevada Wier, among notable masters. All have given favorable critiques of Arturo’s work.

Arturo’s fine art photographic niche is difficult to pigeonhole. He brings to his photographs an eye for unusual perspectives, layered depths and carefully captured light. Some photographs are abstracts, some emphasize the saturation of colors, some are portraits and some are unique travel images. Humor, reflections and closeup details are frequent themes. Occasionally the image is created almost entirely in Photoshop or by manipulating Polaroid emulsions. “I shoot whatever excites me most at that instant. Ultimately my photography is about seeing, recording and sharing the images that capture my view of the world. My images are a blend of art and science that allow me to sync with a viewer for a moment in time and to evoke shared feelings.”

There have been a number of public displays of Arturo’s work. The first was at 2003’s Digital Photography at the Summit in Jackson, where Vicki Goldberg, then photography editor for the New York Times, chose three of Arturo’s images to be included among 34 to be displayed at the National Wildlife Art Museum following the Summit. In the fall of 2004, the Art Association in Jackson, Wyoming hosted a two-day exhibition of 75 of his images. The National Wildlife Art Museum (Jackson, WY) and Rich Clarkson’s “Photography on the Summit” workshop honored Arturo with inclusion in a show featuring the “best images” of ten years of Summit workshops. Here he was included in the company of a number of well-known National Geographic photographers. In addition, he has won awards in nearly every photography contest he has entered.

In recent years, Arturo has preferred to display his work more in limited edition books rather than for-public exhibits. In fact he has done a couple of custom books under contract to private clients. His work can also be found on Instagram (aperalta0619) and soon 500px.

Arturo is a transplanted Easterner who has adored the West almost as long as he has adored photography. He has been a Wyoming resident since 1977 and lived in Jackson Hole since 1988. In high school he considered a career in fashion photography, even apprenticing briefly with Milton Greene, one of Marilyn Monroe’s favorite photographers, and David Norman. Despite successfully diverting into the entrepreneurial realm after high school, he never abandoned a passion for photography. Even on business trips, he often slipped out to photograph in the magical early morning light, returning to his business persona in time for a breakfast meeting.

Prior to study at a number of recent photographic workshops, Arturo’s undergrad education at the University of Denver and Skidmore College culminated in a B.A. in Business and Political Economy, along with the co-founding of his first company. After working at Mellon Bank, and on a couple of additional entrepreneurial start-ups, he returned to graduate school to earn an MBA from Columbia Business School. Nine years later he graduated from the Harvard Business School’s OPM (Owner/President Management) program. Over the years, he owned and ran a number of businesses in a handful of different industries. Throughout his business career he regularly attended seminars in computer science, taxes, finance, marketing, human resource management, business law and strategic planning – and read a lot of photography materials.

In 2001 Arturo successfully sold the last of his operating companies and has since devoted himself to financial consulting, his family and his photography. Recent photographic expeditions to Great Britain, Brazil, Ecuador, Patagonia, Italy, Sicily, Mexico, Australia, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, Dubai, Provence, Santa Fe, and New York City are represented in his current body of work.

“What’s important for me is to surprise and delight people with a vision I have captured, yet one they might never have seen even if they had been along at the time. I aim for showing something fresh.”
All images are high resolution 35mm-format digital.

The arts are in Arturo’s blood as the grandson of Millicent Rogers. Ms. Rogers was a fashion icon of the 1900’s and a noted artist in her own right. She counted artistic personages like D. H. Lawrence, Ian Flemming, Roald Dahl, the “Taos Seven” and Georgia O’ Keefe among her friends. The Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos, New Mexico is dedicated to her work and the art of the American southwest that inspired her so. Many of her clothes and jewelry designs are part of collections at the Brooklyn and Metropolitan Museums in New York, and the Rogers Library, Fairhaven, MA. Portrait photographic greats like Irving Penn and Horst P. Horst sought her out as a portrait and fashion favorite in their work.

Although Arturo prints some of his own work on Epson printers, in order to get the quality he demands, all of his larger commercial photographs are printed by Nash Editions. They are one of the country’s leading digital photographic printers. Nash Editions is the brainchild of Graham Nash, an avid photographer and collector of photography – best known for his Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young fame – and Mac Holbert, a renowned sage in the digital printing world. Both have been recognized by the Smithsonian Institution for their contribution to photography. Steve Gorman, the designated framer for Epson Corporation whenever they show their printed output, does much of Arturo’s framing.

PLEASE NOTE: Very little of my work is shown on my website. If there is interest in seeing more, please contact me to see what is available.