Peter McCain is an artist, photographer, and filmmaker working in documentary, geography, and theater. His work explores historical narratives, cultural consciousness, political anxiety, and environmental catastrophe.
From 2020-2022, he served as the publisher, designer, and editor of BATSHIT TIMES Magazine, a print publication that explores societal collapse through experimental art and emerging practices like biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and counterforensics.
In 2025, Peter photographed portraits to raise funds for wildfire recovery efforts in Los Angeles.
Exhibitions
Copenhagen Photo Festival, 2025
BlackBox Gallery, 2025
Praxis Gallery, 2025
T-shirt print, RANDOM/RANDOM curated by Marcelo Pena Costa, 2024
UGLY, Slow Burn group show curated by Julia Sub, 2023
Summer Show, Static Arts Collective, 2023
The Office, group show curated by Sunny Brearley, 2023
Internetausdrucker, curated by Rhizome and Zora, 2023
Fall of Rome, self-curated, 2022
The Patriot, O’Flaherty’s, curated by Jamian Juliano-Villani, 2022
Publications
Frayme Magazine, 2025
F-Stop Magazine, 2025
Visual Arts Journal, 2025
Seven Innings with November Girl, Office Magazine, 2023
Beneath the Surface, Nostalgic Futures Magazine, 2023
BATSHIT TIMES Magazine, 2020-2022
Post Modern Sleaze Magazine, 2022
Waif Magazine, 2019
Spark Magazine, 2017-2018
Previous collaborators
Baz Luhrmann - Danielle Levitt - Jeremy O. Harris - Orion Sun - Mick Jenkins - Frank Lebon - Molly Manning Walker - Nicolas Heller - Kareem Rahma - Ben Carey - Jack Haven - Ben Ditto - Raja Feather Kelly - Leo Aguirre
Education
2018 - University of Texas at Austin with a B.S in Radio-Television-Film with an emphasis in production design and cinematography and Business Foundations and German language certificates.
Press
“If ever there was a magazine that might capture the overwhelmingly anxiety-ridden background vibe of all the existential memes and gifs that millennials (and co) share between one another on the daily, chunky, experimental art publication Batshit Times might be it… we’re seeing AI pop up across many magazines at present, but none are taking advantage of current experiments with the technology in such an explicit manner as Batshit Times. Nor at such depth—its 300 pages is really an analogue Instagram feed, sharing just enough of each artists work before you turn to the next one. Yet despite its powerful use of AI, the resulting magazine makes a strong argument that the human editor is a better arbiter of choice than a mere algorithm.” - MagCulture