David Peat was a documentary filmmaker and photojournalist who began his career in television in the 1960s, and who by the 1970s, was working as a film camera man on major documentaries such as Big Banana Feet (1976) with comedian Billy Connolly.
Peat had a passion for documenting humanity, and much of his work focuses on the intimate everyday scenes of Glasgow’s cityscapes, such as those seen in his Eye on the Street series. Peat transitioned to directing his own films in the early 1980s, producing some of the intimate observational documentaries he would become best known for. This Eye on the Street series forms part of a major series of street photography the artist curated in a portfolio before applying to work as a camera man. These works were revised four decades later with the assistance of printer Robert Burns.
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