Peter Christopherson

Peter Christopherson, or Sleazy, is the sort of restless creative I find endlessly fascinating. The same person designed iconic album art at Hipgnosis, co-founded boundary-pushing bands like Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV and Coil, and directed Nine Inch Nails' notorious Broken film. That range tells me he was never content sitting in one medium. I respect artists who treat photography, design, video and music as one continuous vocabulary rather than separate careers. His work was confrontational and clearly not for everyone, but that's exactly what I value about it. Losing him in 2010 at 55 feels early for someone whose influence on industrial and experimental culture still lingers.

Name (English)

Peter Christopherson

Name (Japanese)

ピーター・クリストファーソン

Reading

ぴーたー・くりすとふぁーそん

Born

February 27, 1955 – November 25, 2010

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Goat

Origin

Leeds, United Kingdom

Occupation

photographer / director / film director / record producer / graphic designer

University

University at Buffalo

Motto

Private

• Xhttps://x.com/unklesleazy
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%94%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3

Tags

• photographer
• director
• film director

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.