Pete Myers

Pete Myers

is a fine art photographer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. For more than thirty-five years he has photographed the American West, building a body of work that explores the relationship between landscape, memory, culture, and time.

His photographs are the result of a lifelong fascination with perception. Before turning his attention fully to photography, Myers began his career at NASA Ames Research Center at age sixteen, working in electrical engineering, bio-electrical engineering, and digital imaging during the earliest years of computer-based image processing. Some of his work flew aboard Space Shuttle missions; some can still be seen from space.

In 1985, Myers founded a Silicon Valley company focused on three-dimensional audio perception. The technology became a foundational component of virtual reality and was later acquired by Yamaha Corporation. The work is protected under U.S. Patent #4,817,149.

Photography eventually became the place where science, technology, and perception converged. In 2002, Kodak produced a custom DCS 760m monochrome camera for his work, one of the earliest dedicated digital monochrome systems ever built. Myers later served as a beta tester and technical advisor during the development of Leica's first Monochrom camera, helping demonstrate the artistic potential of digital black-and-white photography years before the medium became widely accepted.

Over three decades he has produced more than forty photographic portfolios throughout the American West. Rather than approaching photography as a series of isolated projects, Myers views the work as a continuous investigation carried out over a lifetime. Returning repeatedly to the same landscapes, communities, and forgotten places, he documents not simply what they look like, but what they reveal about endurance, change, and human presence.

His photographs have been collected internationally and have appeared in exhibitions, publications, and public collections. Yet the work remains rooted in a simple idea: that a photograph can be more than a record of a place. It can become evidence of what it felt like to stand there.

Today Myers continues to photograph throughout the American West from his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, creating images intended not for immediate consumption, but for permanence.