May 2022

Mastering the Airwaves: Peter Levy

At top, Peter Levy, ASC, ACS on location in Berlin for the 2016 feature Race. It was the late ’60s, the height of the counterculture, and like many youths of the time, 17-year-old Peter Levy refused to follow the conventional route for middle-class Australian kids like him. The future ASC and ACS member dropped out of high school. That same day, he found a job — helping a photographer relocate from the suburbs to a Sydney warehouse — that would unknowingly set him on a career path and alter the trajectory of his life. A little more than five decades later, Levy has been honored with the 2022 ASC Career Achievement in Television Award — a milestone whose origins he can trace back to that job. While whitewashing the...more