About David A Barnes
Over the course of a forty year career David Barnes has traveled the world and produced a wide array of photographic images, bringing his subjects to life with a style and composition that is uniquely his own, and which has won him recognition through prestigious awards and highly sought after photographic assignments.
At the onset of his career he photographed for the Seattle Times, Sunset Magazine and numerous airline magazines, followed by photographic assignments for the US Travel Service. Concurrently, he was taking photographs for annual reports for Dean Witter Brokerage, Wells Fargo Bank, Bacardi Rum, PG&E, Nordstrom, and Natomas Oil. After early recognition for his local work, David began receiving assignments that took him around the world. With an ongoing interest in photojournalism, he worked for Life, Fortune, Business Week, National Geographic Traveler, and Nautical Quarterly. After spending a year in New York, he set out to photograph his own city, which resulted in the 1980 book published by Pacific Search Press: "Seattle, Photography by David Barnes". This book was recognized with the Governors Book Award.
With the coming of age of stock photography, David began to move in a new direction. It gave him the artistic freedom to pursue his interest in history and the cultures of different peoples through his photographs. In 1983 he went to Europe on a bicycle carrying a camera, accompanied by a friend who planned to stay for one month, and no obligations. The friend went home after the month, and David stayed on to study French and resumed the love affair he had started with Europe and France many years before as a college student. For the next 20 years David spent increasingly more of his time in Europe, till finally he moved to live in Paris. The photographs shown here represent but a few of the images in David's vast collection.
Since the fall of 2008, David is once again a resident of Seattle.
david@davidbarnesphoto.com
At the onset of his career he photographed for the Seattle Times, Sunset Magazine and numerous airline magazines, followed by photographic assignments for the US Travel Service. Concurrently, he was taking photographs for annual reports for Dean Witter Brokerage, Wells Fargo Bank, Bacardi Rum, PG&E, Nordstrom, and Natomas Oil. After early recognition for his local work, David began receiving assignments that took him around the world. With an ongoing interest in photojournalism, he worked for Life, Fortune, Business Week, National Geographic Traveler, and Nautical Quarterly. After spending a year in New York, he set out to photograph his own city, which resulted in the 1980 book published by Pacific Search Press: "Seattle, Photography by David Barnes". This book was recognized with the Governors Book Award.
With the coming of age of stock photography, David began to move in a new direction. It gave him the artistic freedom to pursue his interest in history and the cultures of different peoples through his photographs. In 1983 he went to Europe on a bicycle carrying a camera, accompanied by a friend who planned to stay for one month, and no obligations. The friend went home after the month, and David stayed on to study French and resumed the love affair he had started with Europe and France many years before as a college student. For the next 20 years David spent increasingly more of his time in Europe, till finally he moved to live in Paris. The photographs shown here represent but a few of the images in David's vast collection.
Since the fall of 2008, David is once again a resident of Seattle.
david@davidbarnesphoto.com