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From Tokyo's Imperial Palace to the Altiplano in Bolivia and from the oil rigs
in the North Sea to the Aboriginal communities of northern Australia. No other
expression better summarises Peter Williams' international career, which until
now has covered assignments in more than 110 countries.
Peter Williams studied commercial photography in his native city, Copenhagen,
in the late 1960s, accepting his first major overseas assignment at the age
of 21, when DanChurchAid sent him to Nigeria as a photographer during the Biafran
conflict. He spent the next few years working on assignment as a photographer
in many parts of the world for DanChurchAid, the UNHCR and the Red Cross.
During the 1970s Peter also began working in film and television production,
gaining substantial experience in assignments ranging from television news and
sport to documentaries, children programs and television drama. Major promotional
films for large business cooperatives brought extensive travel around the world.
By the early 1980s, Peter was working for Swedish Television, providing in-depth
coverage of the events in Poland that led to the collapse of communism throughout
Eastern Europe.
In 1983 Peter joined the World Council of Churches. During the next 20 years,
he supervised the WCC's audiovisual communications, overseeing the development
and maintenance of the WCC's extensive photo library which is used by secular
and religious news media in many countries. Throughout this period, Peter continued
his work in still photography, providing the WCC and related organisations with
material that is an invaluable commercial and promotional resource and historical
record of life in many countries. Peter also designed the host broadcaster set-up
for the WCC's assemblies, held in Canberra and Harare. He produced numerous
videos about many of the WCC's wide-ranging activities and events. Many of the
programmes have been broadcast in Europe and North America.
Peter Williams has since 2003 worked as an independent photographer and video
producer. Several of his video productions have won awards like: "The
Roots of Violence" and"Cultural
Shock". In 2005/2006 he developed "Keeping
the Faith", an integrated exhibition, web and book project which
seeks to explore the reality of the living church in various cultural contexts
of today's world.
