Duncan Petrie*
(that’s me!) is a London-based photographer, writer, and web developer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
I like going outside, looking around, and eating falafel.
I share my birthday with the Old New Year, World Logic Day, and the Feast of the Ass.
This is my website!
New here? Take a look at my pigeons, read a story, sing along to a song about bugs, or look out at the sea.
Or, if you’re already sick of this place, you can dive into some other websites right here.
Email me at duncanpetrie1@gmail.com.
- October, 2025 |I’ve got bugs in my bones! If the Monster Mash is the first Halloween song, then this is the second.
- October, 2025 |I wrote this song about nothing on a fourteen-hour flight, when everyone else was asleep.
- September, 2025 |How do you fit one infinity into another? Wikiπdia uses π as an index for Wikipedia articles with numbers in their titles.
- September, 2025 |Now the whole party sees / Your dinosaur undees / You‘re pantsless! / [Pantsless again](“You‘re pantsless again!“)!
- August, 2025 |What do you get when you cross the havin’ of a film camera with a night of listening to someone play the steel guitar? Why, the picture takin’ blues, of course.
- August, 2025 |I come from a land where bugs can scream!
- August, 2025 & 2024 |To Pigeon-Fill the Sky is a website! In 2025, I turned my photobook into an interactive digital experience.
- July, 2025 |There’s a spider in my website, and it’s interested in you!
- May, 2025 |I got a raise in the apocalypse, and I am feeling fine!
- April, 2025 |I started writing this song about dinner in the shower, and finished it when I should have been falling asleep.
- April, 2025 |I saw a rat today, oh boy! I wrote this parody of "A Day in the Life" in a cafe in Falmouth, after seeing, yes indeed, a rat.
- February, 2025 |After reading Don Quixote, I created a Sancho Simulator: all the squire's proverbs, randomized, tantalized, run-round and riled up.
- November, 2024 |I made a good point. This was the start of my love affair with
requestAnimationFrameand cursor-driven effects. - September, 2024 |To Pigeon-Fill the Sky is a photographic storybook about AI, the creative process, and, of course, pigeons.
- January, 2024 |There's a cold wind! And it's coming here today.
- September, 2023 |I met a lonesome weary lady lying in the mud.
- July, 2023 |I’ve learned to hate the man upstairs, who stamps his feet and slides his chairs...
- July, 2023 |I just wanna ride horses!
- April, 2022 |Lingermyth is an artist book of 50 images created as a final degree project at Falmouth University.
- 2020-2020 |I have a lot of photos of birds. None of them have hats. Oh no! I better get to work.
- October, 2021 |My dissertation, On Yearning, is about the feeling you get when you look to the horizon and long to see beyond it.
- April, 2021 |The Triumph of the Commons is a film made entirely from videos and photos I found on Wikipedia.
- Winter, 2021 |Occasionally, when I'm romping through the snow, my hands will thaw for just enough time to pull out my camera.
- 2019-2021 |I grew up in boring old Wisconsin, and I spent the first 18 years of my life waiting to get out.
- Autumn, 2021 |And it gets so late so early in this candlelit November...
- April, 2020 |There’s a spider in my bathroom, in the corner of my shower! And I don’t know where she came from, what she's doing at this hour.
- March, 2020 |During the first covid lockdowns, I got really into making pizza, and I created a timelapse film documenting the process.
- Autumn, 2019 |After many undisturbed and unperturbed years, at least by shopping carts, I arrived at University.