Peggy Anderson is an artist/photographer based in New York and Sweden, currently living in Paris. She recently completed the MFA in Photography with the University of Hartford Art School, 2024.During this time she focused on large format film photography and darkroom printing.   This slower, meditative process allowed her to explore ideas around emotional inheritance and the relationships between objects.  Improvisation and letting the camera guide her has led to playful and absurd results.

She graduated from The International Center of Photography (ICP) Creative Practice program in 2013 after many years of photography classes and workshops. Even with earlier careers as both a hospital nurse and in the food world, Peggy always had a passion for photography and visual culture.

Peggy’s work often embraces ritual and typology. Her signature project “The Morning Dip” was first exhibited at Fotografiska, Stockholm in 2015. This is an on-going portrait series of Swedes on the west coast of Sweden wearing bathrobes after their morning swim in the sea. “The Morning Dip” book was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2020. Her other signature project and book, “Subway Readers”, has also been exhibited at Fotografiska. This is a series of people reading books on the New York City subway. Some of these images are in the collection at The Museum of the City of New York.

While not necessarily a portrait photographer, Peggy finds herself drawn to photographing people not only for the challenge, but also for the interaction. Working with both digital and analog film cameras are part of her creative process. Much of her image making is also inspired by her childhood summers spent in the Swedish countryside. Being an avid traveler, Peggy’s creative practice is inspired by the environment she is in. This is most evident in her Instagram feed which serves more as a visual diary.