Peter Ball
Bethlem Artist Collective
“Since 2016, I have totally unexpectedly, become a photographer. After my first 15 years without ever having a single friend, always a stranger in a strange land, I arrived at Bethlem’s Adolescent Unit. Despite being comprehensively misdiagnosed by some of the “best” psychiatrists in the country it was at Bedlam I began the lifelong, never ending and convoluted journey of learning to live amongst aliens. This remains, very much a work in progress, although some progress has been made.”
Peter G Ball (b 1950, Walthamstow, London) uses photography to explore ways of seeing. His work often includes architecture and performance, and he processes the image as a way to share his lived visual sensory experience of AuDHD (the intersection of Autism & ADHD).
Peter’s photographic process is entirely digital, almost always shot hand-held on a full frame mirrorless camera, usually with autofocus, but otherwise completely manual. Each individual frame is saved with high dynamic range (the difference between the lightest and darkest parts of the image). Editing the raw photographs nothing is added, however information is removed as he pushes and pulls the dynamic range, colour spectrum and perspective.
He has exhibited at: Honeywood Museum, Carshalton (CAOS 2023), Riff Raffs, Croydon (2023) Bethlem Art Fair (2023 & 2024), Velum Mill Gallery, Carshalton (CAOS 2024 & 2025), Bethlem Founders Award Winners 2023 (The Long Gallery, Maudsley Hospital 2025), l’Ecluse 62 à Ouges, near Dijon, France (2024) and Laban Dance Centre, Deptford (2025).