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Artist Statement for Richard Barker
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Many photographers seem to view post-processing as a necessary evil. The online forums are filled with samples proudly stating: “NO post-processing!” “A little curves only.” “Tiny bit of Noise Ninja.” What the final product often exhibits, however, is a technically accurate “Sunset Over the Aegean” that is so perfect as to be totally interchangeable with the 2,439 other “Sunsets Over the Aegean” floating around the same forum. . .only a little less perfect than the one taken by the Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III. What we end up with is the camera’s picture, not the photographer’s.
My photography has been created with great abandon and perhaps a lack of respect for the perceived rules of the form. I add noise, blow the image up into a pixellated sea of shapes, and occasionally even spend time coaxing my poor little picture to bleed and bloom. I just figure that when all is said and done, it's really about whether the final product moves you in some way. . .even if it moves the photographic purist to search his thesaurus for new exclamations of derision. Movement is movement.
Sometimes I work toward a vision, sometimes I let the content of the shot and the tools at hand lead me on a tour of various potentials. Sometimes I see what the camera has caught and just applaud its creativity. . .then print it.
In the end, photographic stills are never really that still. It's always about movement. Regardless of how the artist gets there, the final image has to evoke a shifting of the eye, mind or emotional state. So for me, it's the afterimage that transcends, that enlightens and enlivens the work of an otherwise mechanical shutter.
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