September 8, 2025
The George Eastman Museum has acquired prints by Mark Peterson and Bing Guan for their permanent collection.
Mark Peterson: Waiting for election results at a Trump watch party at the Palm Beach Convention Center, November, 2024
Bing Guan: New York Police officers in riot gear enter Hamilton Hall at Columbia University, New York, April 30, 2024
Mark Peterson is a photographer based in New York City. His work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Time, Fortune, National Geographic, Geo Magazine and other national and international publications. In 2018 he was awarded the W. Eugene Smith grant for his work on White Nationalism. This photograph was published in The New York Times and selected as one of the "photos that defined 2024."
Bing Guan 管秉宸 is a Chinese American photographer and journalist. He is based between New York City and Southern California. He is currently an adjunct professor of photography at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Bing is a regular contributor to Reuters, Bloomberg, and The New York Times.
The George Eastman Museum is located in Rochester, New York, on the estate of George Eastman, the pioneer of popular photography and motion picture film. Founded in 1947 as an independent nonprofit institution, it is the world’s oldest photography museum and one of the oldest film archives. The museum holds unparalleled collections—encompassing several million objects—in the fields of photography, cinema, and photographic and cinematographic technology, and photographically illustrated books. The institution is also a longtime leader in film preservation and photographic conservation.
