David Barnes

'David Barnes is a photographer working with a mix of documentary, editorial and advertising approaches and is widely exhibited in the UK and Europe. David studied documentary photography at Newport College in Wales in the late nineties and has been a regular contributor to publications such as the Guardian Weekend Magazine, Observer Magazine, and Telegraph Saturday Magazine. In this film David talks about his personal practice in conjunction with a more commercial one and about his journey through education. David talks about his ‘King Tide’ series, which is a personal reflection on Wales, time and memory and also shares some of his influences and some of the decisions he’s made pursuing photography as a career and lifestyle.'

David Barnes is a Cardiff based documentary photographer. Within my research, I wanted to focus on his early works, particularly a project called 'extended family' dated between 1998-2001. This series documents different family relationships in different ways. The project is slightly fragmented with the use of both colour and black and white. I'm not sure if I like this method because it almost makes the project look as though it's actually several different ones, with my project, I kept it all in colour to emphasise the beauty of their surroundings. I feel with Barnes' images, the black and white enhances the gritty feel, applying slightly negative connotations to the images.