Peter Mather loves (in order): soccer, photography, his family, healthy living, and McDonalds. Peter lives in Whitehorse, Yukon, where he was raised playing soccer and hockey during the school year, then hiking, canoeing, hunting, and fishing in the summer months.  His photo stories revolve around life in the North, with a focus on wildlife, environment, and community culture.

Mather’s stories include how a changing climate will impact wolverines on Alaska’s North Slope, the protection of sacred caribou calving grounds, and how humans live in harmony with the urban fox. He is a fellow with the International League of Conservation photographers and has worked with National Geographic, the New York Times, Smithsonian, Audubon, Canadian Geographic, and Geo magazine on telling important wildlife stories from the North.

“My passion is telling important but little known conservation stories around my home. I’m always trying to capture those unique images, that make people pause, and draw them into a bigger story about ourselves and our natural world.”

Peter focuses his work on long form storytelling projects, where he focuses intensely on one project for two to five years. Combining video, camera trapping and still photography, his goal is to inform, inspire, and entertain with stories from the Wild North. Peter’s passion for being on the land comes from his father, Val Mather, who spent years in the field researching stories with Peter.

“I feel more like an explorer or a curious kid than a photographer most days.  I probably spend 5 days searching in the field for every day of photography.”

Peter, like many of us, is a reflection of his parents. He has his dad’s sense of adventure and his mom’s empathy and vision. As he says, “My goal in life is to have my kids look at me, the way I look at my parents.”