Peter Ydeen is a photographer and artist currently living in Easton, Pennsylvania, working in New York City, and often traveling abroad. He works within the now-established tenet of Urban Landscape Photography, which celebrates the complexity and beauty of the mundane world. Although his work uses New Topographics as an impetus, his photographs move away from that stoic aesthetic with the ethereal layering typical of a romantic. He finds inspiration in the poetics of George Tice, the playful lyricism of Paul Klee, the readymades of Marcel Duchamp, and the eccentric energy of Charles Burchfield, all of these seemingly setting themselves within the romantic setting of an E.T.A. Hoffmann tale.

The thrust of Ydeen’s work has been the night series Easton Nights; however, he has also created several other series, including Waiting for Palms, shot in Egypt and Morocco; Commuter Motions, a motion study of his commute from Easton to New York City; Black White and Gray, a more traditional monochrome series also shot along the Interstate 78 corridor from Easton to New York; Valley Days and its subset Valley Days Rondels, a series of daylight shots in the Lehigh Valley; and finally, the ongoing series Away, which studies urban landscapes Ydeen encounters on his travels. A new series, myUTAH, with photographs taken around the Colorado Plateau, is currently being developed and presented.  All of these works have found their way into many books and publications, as well as into numerous creative exhibitions.