In [Fraser's] large colour photographs, a polystyrene cup bristling with tookpicks becomes as exotic as an African fetish object, and a wave of red lino or a plastic can filled with green liquid attest to the beauty of the discarded and disregarded
The film ‘Powers of Ten’ had a profound influence on Peter Fraser in 1968 when he first saw it and in this lecture to students at The University of Wales Newport on 26/02/09 he makes express reference to its importance, along with a discussion of his work from 1983 to 2008.