Brendan Barry is a photographer, educator and camera builder whose creative photographic practice combines elements of construction, education, performance and participation.

Fascinated by the mechanics of vision and the processes of analogue photography, his work is concerned with the transformation of different objects and environments into spaces capable of viewing and making a photographic image. The process and materiality of photography – the action of light through a lens, the heightened awareness of the world brought about by being inside a camera obscura and the magical moment of transformation when the image is registered on photo-sensitive paper – is central to this practice as both a personal experience and the means by which he engages others in forms of collaboration and exploration.

Brendan is founder & director of Positive Light Projects, a not for profit organisation using the visual arts to engage and inspire a diverse range of audiences and communities as well as developing emerging artists and aiding them move their practise forward in exciting and innovative ways.

Represented by Black Box Projects

For commissions, workshops, prints or anything else please feel free to get in touch

brendanbarry@me.com

Videos from various projects are viewable here.

SELECTED Press

V&A

British Journal of Photography

It’s Nice That

Colossal

Feature Shoot

Peta Pixel

DIY Photography

Plain Magazine

Japan Camera Hunter

Design Boom

Homemade Camera Podcast

Large Format Photography Podcast

FStoppers

Exeter Culture

Don’t Take Pictures

The Photographer’s Gallery

Bored Panda

ISO 1200

My Modern Met

Little Things

Photoworks