Duke’s surreal portrait of Malik Obama, Barack Obama’s Trump-supporting half brother, appeared on the front page of The New York Post last July.
He has worked behind the scenes, one pro bono shoot at a time, in an effort to manufacture a new image for the right, one that casts the figureheads of the political fringe in a more refined, almost majestic light.ĭuke’s subjects have included the belligerent blogger Charles Johnson, the conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich, the flamboyant rabble-rouser Milo Yiannopoulos, the “guerrilla journalist” James O’Keefe and the documentary filmmaker Phelim McAleer, a pro-fracking climate-change denier.
Over the past few years, he has earned a reputation in conservative circles as a kind of visual fixer. Duke used to work as a fashion photographer, but lately he has turned his viewfinder rightward. Duke is 60 but looks a decade younger he has a head full of wavy, sand-colored hair, and in his green hoodie, khakis, black sneakers and a camera bag slung casually over his shoulder, he gave off the air of a retired director. On a clear afternoon in mid-February, I met the photographer Peter Duke outside his apartment in Pacific Palisades, an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood situated on a high cliff overlooking the ocean.
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