Canadian photographer Michael Barnes has been making photographs for 20 years. In 1994, he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons) Visual Arts, Photography, from the University of Victoria.
Michael Barnes began focusing on portrait and figure photography in 1999 after a deliberate decision to reject the theory driven academic approach taught in University and return to classical themes and art making for personal pleasure. It was here that he began to have a true appreciation for his craft, shedding all notions of commercialism and instead becoming driven purely by the joy of making images and gaining a new appreciation for the human body.
A rarity among photographers now days, all of his photographs are produced using traditional film and darkroom techniques. Michael Barnes takes a certain pleasure from the slow process of developing film and making prints under the red glow of the darkroom. It is here that the process... MORE
Michael Barnes Daydreams in Light | Gallery
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