On a summer evening in an electric-red, chili-spiced, East Village vegan restaurant known for its combination of bassy bowls of mapo tofu and 808-enthused hip-hop tracks, a man walks in with silver-framed, '90s slated, cat-eye sunglasses on. It's AP the Angel.
Born Anthony Peterson in St. Louis, Missouri, he's known colloquially as AP here in New York City. Having grown up between St. Louis, Chicago, and Michigan, AP is now a New York-based photographer. His style emanates the industrial nature of the Midwest, but there's a strong New York vein running throughout. AP’s work includes street, portraiture, and documentary photography yet he has a transcendent philosophy when it comes to his range. He finds landscape work to be more peaceful as it focuses on nature’s existence in of itself. The New York City streets, the subject he's perhaps most often associated with, he finds, are a transient flow; very rarely existing on their own.