Peterlin graduated at Prague's FAMU Academy with a BA in photography (1994-98) and earned a Postgraduate Diploma at The London College of Printing (2002-03). In 2000 he received a scholarship at Fabrica, Benetton's Research Center for Communication and began working with Oliviero Toscani. In 2001 Peterlin started Fotopub Festival of Documentary Photography and served as art-director for seven years.
Currently however, Peterlin is solely focused on the ‘Antiquarian Avant-Guard’ or 19th Century photography techniques, with the emphasis on wet plate collodion.
He has exhibited worldwide, in venues such as the Konica-Minolta Gallery, Tokio, Japan / K2 Gallery - Izmir, Turkey / Martin-Gropius- Bau, Berlin, Germany/ Host Gallery, London, UK / Kaunas Photo Festival, Lithuania / Doland Museum, Shanghai, China / Photo Fringe Festival, Krakow, Poland and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
