Peter van Agtmael

Commercial Portfolio

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  • 2017. Washington DC.  USA.  A contestant in camouflage high heels during the preliminary judging.  Ms. Veteran America is a pageant for active duty and retired female members of the armed forces.  Part beauty pageant, part talent competition, part test of strength and commitment, the event raises funds for Final Salute, an organization providing housing and support for homeless women veterans and their children.  Some of the participants danced and some sang, but many gave testimonials of sexual assault, PTSD and homelessness. Lindsay Gutierrez won the 2017 competition.  The keynote speaker was the original {quote}Daisy Duke{quote}, Catherine Bach.
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  • 2019. North Ogden. Utah. USA. Jennie Taylor at home.  Her husband, Brent Taylor, was killed in Afghanistan the previous year during his fourth deployment. He left behind her and seven children.
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  • 2017. Monroe County, West Virginia. USA.  Coal miner at Pay Car Inc. No. 58, a Southern Coal Corporation underground coal mine.
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  • 2017. Qaraqosh. Iraq. An Iraqi soldier stands guard at Easter Mass at St. George's church in the nearly abandoned town of Qaraqosh, recently liberated from ISIS.
  • 2017. Bashiqa. Iraq. Portrait of a Yazidi boy in Bashiqa.
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  • 2017. Bashiqa. Iraq. A portrait of a young Yazidi girl.
  • 2020. Richmond, Virginia. USA.  A small rally demonstrating for increased gun regulation is attended by less than a dozen people after Gun rights activists gathered at the state Capitol to protest possible legislation to restrict gun ownership introduced by the Democrat controlled state government.  Despite fears of violence, the protest was peaceful and had only one arrest.  The crowd was estimated at 22,000.  Democrats want to limit handgun purchases to one a month, institute universal background checks, and add a bill that would allow local authorities to temporarily take guns away from those considered dangerous to themselves or others.
  • 2020. Richmond, Virginia. USA.  Gun rights activists gathered at the state Capitol to protest possible legislation to restrict gun ownership introduced by the Democrat controlled state government.  Despite fears of violence, the protest was peaceful and had only one arrest.  The crowd was estimated at 22,000.  Democrats want to limit handgun purchases to one a month, institute universal background checks, and add a bill that would allow local authorities to temporarily take guns away from those considered dangerous to themselves or others.
  • 2018. New York, New York. USA.  Lower East Side.
  • USA. Brooklyn, New York. 2013.  Artist Elsa Hansen.
  • 2019. Tijuana. Mexico.  A QuinceaƱera celebration at the beach by border wall between Mexico-USA.
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  • USA.  New York, New York.  2012.  The fashion designer and icon Iris Apfel photographed at her Upper East Side Manhattan home.
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