Artist statement - The future
The selection of photographs shown on this site represent an expansive body of work. Over my extensive career I have photographed in excess of 36 countries
and my work is in numerous public and private collections.
I like pictures that are strong, revelatory and fascinating.
That is why I am not feeling at home, neither in the recent development of painting, nor in that of photography,
where such images seem to become increasingly more scarce.
Both branches of the image production are trapped in a hopeless trench war,
in which they take opposite positions that cannot but drive them into ever new dead ends:
whereas painting threatens to degenerate into staged reality, design, cheap philosophy or empty revolutionary gesture,
photography seems to become increasingly mesmerised by documenting or reduplicating the existent - however interesting -
if it does not altogether lose itself in the solving of all the technical difficulties in rendering the real world.
Precisely the digital revolution opens hitherto unknown perspectives to overcome photography's much scorned dependency of the given
and to freely transform the existent world in a self-created, self-contained reality of a higher order: the world of art.
That is why I opted for the digital camera and digital manipulation,
and above all for the immaterial digital screen, lighted from within, that only completes the digital production of the image
- in the hope that a further development of the technology of the screen will free the digital image
from its hitherto obligatory transformation into a printed reflecting surface.
About the artist
1968 年オーストラリア生まれ
国際的に広告写真を手がけている写真家、バリー アシュワース。
オーストラリア、グリフィス大学にて芸術学部（写真家）学士号を取得後、洗練された斬新な イメージ、デザインを革新し続けることに情熱を注いでいる。
彼のポートフォリオは、長年において、彼の思い続けているビジョンが実現化されたものであり、常に課題としている「自然の理に受け継がれていく物の美しさ」を
表現する事に成功している。また近年、北海道で撮りためた写真においては、自然の美しさと厳しさが表現されている。さらにオーストラリアの大自然、そこで働く人々の写真、西と東の美しさが影響しあい融合された風景写真は、彼の写真技術の高さを表している。
バリーの業績は国際的にも評価され Time life, Black & white, BBC News, New York Times, Rauters and AP news services をはじめとするいくつかのメジャーな出版誌、世界数多くの個展 ギャラリーにて紹介されている。
Barry Ashworth is a professional commercial photographer, visual artist and designer with many years national and international experience. Since completing his degree in Visual Arts (Photography) at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, he has focused his energies on, and built a reputation for making and providing imaginative, innovative and technically polished images and designs.
His portfolio reflects his depth of visual understanding, awareness in design and the natural beauty inherent in his subjects, while remaining true to the realisation of his vision. This combined with his technical experience has resulted in his ability to work successfully within a wide range of genres. His work has also been featured in many National and International publications such as Time life, Black & white, BBC News, New York Times, Reuters and Associated Press news services plus commissions from international organisations such as International Red Cross and Amnisty International. He also has works in numerous public and private collections and has been involved with many major exhibitions and galleries though out the world.
For information about acquiring images or commissioning a project please go to the artist management link on this page.
