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.
Find me on instagram, on bluesky, or 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 |There are ten thousand lamps in your room.
September, 2025 |Now the whole party sees / Your dinosaur undees / You‘re pantsless! / 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 withrequestAnimationFrameand cursor-driven effects.
September, 2024 |The List of the Wind is a story about getting up and doing, finally, what needs to be done.- September, 2024 |To Pigeon-Fill the Sky is a photographic storybook about AI, the creative process, and, of course, pigeons.
February, 2024 |Saltish and the Sea-beast is a story about going away, and about coming back, too.- 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.
January, 2022 |A Necklace of Stars is a love story, short and bright.
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.
March, 2021 |Breaking news: I found the fluffiest cloud!
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.