Flowers for Bea

The images in Flowers for Bea were made during the spring and summer of 2020.

Each day during the lockdowns put in place during the Covid pandemic, Brendan Barry would go for a walk in his neighborhood, picking wildflowers, bringing them home and arranging them into still lifes to be photographed with a camera obscura and darkroom he had constructed out of a garden shed. He created the images using two analogue processes, one with a paper negative, the other produced using a complex colour-reversal process.

Brendan Barry is a photographer, educator and camera builder whose creative photographic practice combines elements of construction, education, performance and participation. He is the founder and director of Positive Light Projects, a not for profit organisation using the visual arts to engage and inspire a diverse range of audiences.