Charles Peterson’s Nirvana

Active for just six years, the band Nirvana left an indelible mark on the late twentieth century. Photographer and self-described “music fanatic” Charles Peterson, a fellow twenty-something from the suburbs of Seattle, was present with his camera as, through this group and others, a genre took form. His photographs have become synonymous with the sounds, styles, movement and attitude known as grunge.Charles Peterson’s Nirvana expands beyond Peterson’s iconic images of the band to highlight gems never before published. The resulting selection of photographs and their sequence mash up venues and years, suffering and sublime, to arrive at a visual experience that one cannot help but also feel and hear.