About

Who is behind The Petrified Muse Photography?

I am Peter Kruschwitz, the photographer behind The Petrified Muse Photography. Born in divided Berlin in the 1970s and shaped by cities like Hamburg, Reading, London, and now Vienna, I make images that reflect the intensity, complexity, contradictions, and fractures of urban life.

My work is rooted in analogue photography – modest Soviet rangefinders, mostly, and home-developed black-and-white film: the slowness of the medium and the process help me to feel the realities life (with all its impossibilites) intensely and with reflection.

This site is my online gallery – a personal, curated body of work, unmotivated by commercial interests, but informed by curiosity, observation, and a desire to see – just see. I try to capture the world I see, without prejudice, in all its oddities and idiosyncrasies, in all its beauty and squalor, in its randomness, its harmonies, and its imperfections.

How to get in touch?

If you find yourself on one of my photos and object to its publication, please do let me know, and I will take it down. No offence intended, no offence taken, no further questions asked.

I ask you to respect my copyright. All photos made available on this page are my own, for you to enjoy. They are not available for reuse, commercially or otherwise, without my explicit, written permission. Any use must be duly acknowledged.

If you would like to know more, or would like to get in touch with me for other reasons, please contact me at contact (at ) petrifiedmusephotography (dot) net.

One final question: do you have a privacy policy?

Of course! And you can find it here.