About Peter

📷 Portrait by Nishimoto Kyōko

My name is Peter Orosz. I write stuff, take pictures, and walk a lot. I live in Tartu, Estonia. My family name is pronounced “O-ros” — it’s the Hungarian word for “Russian”, which I am not.

This website is where I publish my writing and pictures:

• The Wilds of Shikoku, a book about a five hundred kilometer walk across Shikoku, the smallest of Japan’s four main islands, in January and February 2019
• These Walking Dreams, a visual field diary of a 4,300-kilometer walk from one end of Japan to the other, in the spring and summer of 2017

In progress:

• A Something Like Peace, a photobook about re-thatching a medieval farmhouse in the hills north of Kyōto, Japan’s old capital, in October 2019

You’ll find my other visual field diaries on my semi-dormant Instagram account until I bring them over here. I post new (and old) photos on Glass.

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If you wish to support my work, the best way to do so is to buy a copy of The Wilds of Shikoku. It’s a rather beautiful book and is also available in a special edition.

You can write me anytime, in English and Hungarian, at peter@ilovewasting.ink

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Everything on this website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The only exceptions are the I 💜 Wasting Ink octopus stamp, by Bertjan Pot, and the photo above, by Nishimoto Kyōko.

Last update: April 28, 2022