Peter Ralston
Photographer
Ralston Gallery
Peter Ralston grew up in Chadd’s Ford, Pennsylvania, worked for a decade as a freelance photojournalist, and then began photographing the coast of Maine in 1978, drawn especially to the working communities that define the coast’s enduring character.
His work has been seen in many books and magazines, featured repeatedly on network television, and has been exhibited in galleries, collections, and museums throughout the United States and abroad, including The National Gallery of Art, Museum of Fine Arts/Boston, Portland Museum of Art, Mona Bismark Foundation/Paris, Farnsworth Art Museum, Colby College, National Museum of American History/Smithsonian, Art in Embassies Program, Aomori Prefectural Museum/Japan, deYoung Fine Arts Museum/San Francisco, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza/Madrid, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Denver Art Museum, Royal Academy of the Arts/London, Saatchi Gallery/London, and many others.
In 2003, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College for his photography as well as his role as co-founder of the Island Institute.
He opened Ralston Gallery in Rockport, Maine in 2011, selling his photographs as well as the work (prints and originals) of his lifelong friends, Andrew and Jamie Wyeth. Ralston’s upcoming book about the coast of Maine, Going Deep, will be published in July 2026.
More information is available on his website at www.ralstongallery.com.
His work has been seen in many books and magazines, featured repeatedly on network television, and has been exhibited in galleries, collections, and museums throughout the United States and abroad, including The National Gallery of Art, Museum of Fine Arts/Boston, Portland Museum of Art, Mona Bismark Foundation/Paris, Farnsworth Art Museum, Colby College, National Museum of American History/Smithsonian, Art in Embassies Program, Aomori Prefectural Museum/Japan, deYoung Fine Arts Museum/San Francisco, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza/Madrid, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Denver Art Museum, Royal Academy of the Arts/London, Saatchi Gallery/London, and many others.
In 2003, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College for his photography as well as his role as co-founder of the Island Institute.
He opened Ralston Gallery in Rockport, Maine in 2011, selling his photographs as well as the work (prints and originals) of his lifelong friends, Andrew and Jamie Wyeth. Ralston’s upcoming book about the coast of Maine, Going Deep, will be published in July 2026.
More information is available on his website at www.ralstongallery.com.
