Biography
Peter Steinhauer is an artist photographer, and he lived and worked in Asia for twenty years, beginning in Vietnam in 1993. His photography focuses on architecture within urban landscape, man-made structure, and natural landscape. His prints are in the collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Hong Kong Heritage Museum and a growing number of private and corporate collections worldwide. He is a recipient of numerous international photography awards including a finalist for the 2014 and 2017 Lucie Awards, Ford Foundation grant for his multiyear work in Vietnam, three Communication Arts Photography Annual Award of Excellence awards, among others.
He is the co-founder, with his wife of Vietnam Society, who promotes Vietnam in the Washington, DC area through art and culture and is dedicated to the peace and reconciliation process from the effects of the US / Vietnam war.
Steinhauer’s Enduring Spirit of Vietnam was awarded Best Photography Book of the Year 2007 by Photo District News (PDN).
