Born in 1973 in Chicago, he spent most of the first half of his life detesting what he thought of as photography (posing in front of various backgrounds for stilted family photos to placate a pesky immigrant shutterbug grandmother). In his early twenties, Pete discovered the value of not only being able to express certain ontological complexities visually, but what it also means to see the world around him beyond his own perspective (ironically, his first camera was given to him by said grandmother).