Jeremy Barnard
Jeremy
Barnard has been primarily a practitioner of black and white photography for
the past forty plus years. He is self-taught, his craft having been molded and
influenced by the photography and writings of some of the great masters. «My
love affair with photography began when I developed my first roll of film and
created my first print. I fell in love with the process, the magic.» His
passionate pursuit of technical excellence has kept Jeremy involved in every
step of the photographic process. He retains control even into the presentation
stage by doing his own post processing, mounting, matting, and framing.
More
than twenty years ago the computer made its appearance in Jeremy's work
environment. In the beginning he viewed it as an unnecessarily complex
typewriter. As it began to insert itself into the world of photography it was
easy to be skeptical about the computer's photographic future, since the early
results of digital imaging were disappointing. Things, as we now know, have
changed radically in the digital world of photography. Output quality has
surpassed that of film. At this point it has been over twenty years since
Jeremy has shot a roll of film, and he's not looking back.
Mr Barnard's approach to his work can best be
described as an ongoing process of self
discovery. His photographs walk a fine line between abstraction and realism.
His early work results from a concentration on people, mostly on the street. In
his contemporary work he prefers to make photographs that do not contain
people. However, his images frequently contain evidence that people have been
there, adding an element of mystery. «I like to make pictures that ask more
questions than they answer.»
Artist/writer
David Raymond wrote in Art New England that Barnard's photographs «not only convey a
sense of place, but a sense of time transcending place,...his work is poetic in
unexpected ways.»
