Jim A. Barker

Jim A. Barker

CREATIVE PRACTICE

Photography

FOCUS

Photography and visual arts. Spanning both digital and film, my artistic focus is on portraiture, architecture, street and landscapes, while my professional activities include portraiture & headshots, architecture & real estate, weddings & events, food & beverage and commercial.

ARTIST STATEMENT

If Sontag is to be believed, "the camera makes reality atomic": Meaning that through photography, the world becomes a series of unrelated, freestanding particles. Except, that's not how I see it. The world through my photography is a series of interrelated, emotionally-laden collections of pixels and inks. As a flâneur, I observe, I document, I seek to interact and I seek to relay not just my thoughts and feelings associated with the world and its inhabitants, but to invoke strong and strange feelings in those who view my work. As I see it, the world and its inhabitants are a series of particular particulates arranged via patterns, connected both knowingly and unknowingly through this thing we call life. I seek to float above, beside or within these patterns and reflect them back upon the viewer, to stimulate, provoke and elicit emotion.

Recognition

2020 "Doortraits", online exhibit in partnership with Lifeline
2020 Highly Commended, The Mono Awards - People
2020 Highly Commended, Australasia's Top Emerging Photographers - Documentary
2020 Highly Commended, Australasia's Top Emerging Photographers - Portrait
2019 Commended, Photographer of the Year - Black & White

CONTACT

0418 163 770

hello@twelvepoints.photography | @thejimclasshero

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Dave Robinson

Dave Robinson

CREATIVE PRACTICE

Digital Media/Visual Arts

Photography of all kinds; landscape, the natural world, close ups, fine art, people and portraiture, families, weddings and functions. Just about anything and always happy to try something new.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I love photography. I love capturing moments in time, whether it be landscapes and nature or people just where they are at, right here right now. I love using my camera and lenses to isolate, to focus on, to highlight, to hone in on something from a scene or person that may not be evident to a casual observer. I love capturing people in candid moments where some of their true self can be glimpsed. I love trying to capture the real essence of someone, their moods, their feelings, who they really are and how they interact with those around them, their connections and connectivity. I love trying to create an image that allows the viewer to feel as if they are there, in that place, in that moment or part of what the people pictured are experiencing. I love capturing live music and often do so to help promote the artists performing and music in general. Always looking to see what catches my eye and how can I capture something that will mean something, appeal to someone, to move them in a world swamped and bombarded in billions of images everywhere. I love creative problem solving, “How can I capture this scene/person/occasion in this light, in this situation?” And then there is also, “What can I learn from this? How can I do it better? What’s next?”

BIO

I have a trades and engineering background, being an automotive mechanic running my own workshop in a small country town last century, where I learnt a lot about people and dealing with and connecting with them. I have a tendency towards perfectionism, doing whatever I do properly and to the best of my ability. I have been called ‘meticulous’. I have worked on the land and in shearing sheds, in offices and in customer service. Construction, carpentry and other skills I have also collected along the way. I am a father to five with the associated life experience that brings. I am self-taught in numerous skills, being fortunate to be able to turn my hands and eyes to just about anything. I came to photography 17 years ago as an outlet, then a hobby that became more serious, devouring just about anything I could read on the subject and trying a vast range of techniques to see what worked and didn’t work. Early on, I was mentored by a full-time professional who specialised in weddings and then branched out on my own. I have covered just about every genre of photography to some degree and learnt much along the way. My trades and technical background has enabled me to gain a good grasp of the technical aspects of photography and my life experience and being willing to experiment and learn has me more latterly trying to capture images that move or touch people or at least get them to take a second look. I continue to learn and hone the skills of my artform guided by my own curiosity and also my subjects and the world around me.

CONTACT

0435 171 509
dave@daverobinsonphotography.com
www.daverobinsonphotography.com

Tony Grant

Tony Grant

CREATIVE PRACTICE

Digital media

When taking photos I strive to include elements which are relevant to the premise of the picture so that, as much as is possible, the picture speaks for itself. By careful choice of location, lens and composition, I try to only include what is desirable while excluding what is not. I always consider my subject in relation to its background and the quality of light that falls onto it.

For ambient light portraiture, I first look for the best light and then the background, only then do I place the subject. When shooting Landscapes I like a strong foreground element. Using a very wide lens and getting in close achieves this. I photograph many other subjects.

ARTIST STATEMENT

It was 1983 when I first peered through the lens of an SLR. I loved the way you could selectively focus on an object and isolate it from its surroundings. I fell in love with photography in that very first moment.

In 1986, employed as a Lab Technician and Printer in a photolab. I had access to a full colour lab as well as my own B&W darkroom. During this period, I devoured and inhaled photography, teaching myself the art of taking and producing pictures. By 1988 I was working as a press photographer. In the 1990s I went freelance. I am still learning the art.

BIO

I am self-taught. I have had over 30 years of photographic experience firstly as a Lab Technician and Printer, then a press photographer, and now a freelance photographer.

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CONTACT

tonygrantpix@gmail.com