1/1 Greetings from Gadigal country (in Sydney, Australia) - Sarah Barker @sezwhophoto happy to be sharing with you on day one of my @wpanyc Instagram takeover.
While I have made images extensively with medium format & 35mm film as well as digital SLR, my camera of choice is now my smartphone, especially for street photography.
I love the intimacy and anonymity that mobile phone photography enables. I’m inspired by structure and place, light and shadow, and I aim to capture the beauty and symmetry of commonplace.
This image is from a series I made at the rooftop cafe and sculpture garden at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Warrane/Warrang (Sydney Cove).
Honourable Mention, #JuliaMargaretCameronAwards 2019
Finalist, #BownessPrize, 2019
Honourable Mention, #MobilePhotographyAwards, 2020
#wpanyc #wpatakeover
Christmas 2021
Life in lockdown. Two birds with one stone:
Put up Christmas decorations early AND made the picture for my 2021 Christmas card.
(Too much?)
The good news is the Christmas tree that died when I moved house has started to come back to life.
I’m taking that as a good sign, despite the baggage situation.
#storyofmystilllife #emotionalbaggage #photographersinisolation #coviddiaries #lockdownlife #lifeinlockdown #languishing
Lockdown Picture Show
Pop-up portrait exhibition in the windows of Hugh Stewart’s studio in Hall’s Lane, Woollahra.
“The story behind my portrait of my 91 year old mum, Joyce, made in the garden of the retirement village within your 5km bubble where she used to live with my Dad. Sadly we haven’t been able to visit my mum in her aged care home since June. My 91 year old Dad still lives at the retirement village and he (and I) have both been to visit my mum’s portrait at the lockdown picture show. It’s been a comfort to visit the portrait of mum while we can’t visit her on person.”
#ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis
I’m proud to have my image “Pandemic Perambulation” featured in #ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis. This book presents images made by photographers across the world in 2020, showing daily life in the midst of the global pandemic, autocratic regimes, and deep political unrest. The book is available for purchase from the ICP.
Notions of Home
Finalist in the Lucie Foundation's "Notions of Home" supporting their new youth-focused photography program designed to elevate the work of youth through regional organisations teaching young photographers - Visions From the Youth of America Program.
Refugee Camp in my Neighbourhood
The Refugee Camp in my Neighbourhood was a temporary, simulated refugee camp situated in the grounds of the Auburn Centre for Community on Darug country in Sydney, Australia.
During Refugee Week tour guides, who were former refugees or asylum seekers, guided participants through the interactive exhibition. Throughout the tour participants discovered the stories and experiences of local Auburn residents as they experienced what it is like to flee your country and try to find safety.
Life in lockdown at the ol' folx home
Watching telly with four nonagenarians : Dad in the recliner off camera, David Attenborough on the screen, and mum and the late Jack Mundey in the photo frame to the left of the telly.
Venus and crescent Yan-nă-dah/moon from the cliffEdge
Yan-nă-dah is the word for moon in the First Nations language of Warrang/Sydney as recorded in the notebooks of Lieutenant William Dawes, an officer of the first fleet of 1787-88. Patyegarang, a young woman aged about 15, was Dawes’ main language teacher. She was to prove vital to his understanding and documentation of the Sydney Language.
#lifeatsixfeet
MUA Here to Stay
“Few of those who participated in the [1998] dispute will ever forget the amazing experience of solidarity and equality. We linked arms and faced down waves of police intent on breaking our determination to stop Patrick boss, Chris Corrigan, from attacking workers.
It didn’t matter whether you were a builder’s labourer or a first year university student: all were welcomed to take part in what was a truly democratic experience of union solidarity.”
- Sue Bull, Green Left Weekly
Portal
Sisterhood
30 Over 50
Very happy to be selected for this group exhibition, “30 Over 50”, at the Center for Fine Art Photography
RED
Photographers in Isolation
Ol’ folx home - still life with two chairs
"life"
Selected for the “life” exhibition at the A Smith Gallery
Mobiography
Mobiography Black and White
Not to Blame - Joni Mitchell
The story hit the news
From coast to coast
They said you beat the girl
You loved the most
Your charitable acts
Seemed out of place
With the beauty
With your fist marks on her face
Your buddies all stood by
They bet their fortunes
And their fame
That she was out of line
And you were not to blame
Six hundred thousand doctors
Are putting on rubber gloves
And they're poking
At the miseries made of love
They say they're learning
How to spot
The battered wives
Among all the women
They see bleeding through their lives
I bleed--
For your perversity--
These red words that make a stain
On your white-washed claim that
She was out of line
And you were not to blame …
Merry Everything
Solstice sky over the old Queen Mary Nurses Home
Deeper Than Love
There is love, and it is a deep thing
but there are deeper things than love.
First and last, man is alone.
He is born alone, and alone he dies
and alone he is while he lives, in his deepest self.
Love, like the flowers, is life, growing.
But underneath are the deep rocks, the living rock that lives
alone
and deeper still the unknown fire, unknown and heavy, heavy
and alone.
Love is a thing of twoness.
But underneath any twoness, man is alone.
And underneath the great turbulent emotions of love, the
violent herbage,
lies the living rock of a single creature's pride,
the dark, naif pride.
And deeper even than the bedrock of pride
lies the ponderous fire of naked life
with its strange primordial consciousness of justice
and its primordial consciousness of connection,
connection with still deeper, still more terrible life-fire
and the old, old final life-truth.
Love is of twoness, and is lovely
like the living life on the earth
but below all roots of love lies the bedrock of naked pride,
subterranean,
and deeper than the bedrock of pride is the primordial fire of
the middle
which rests in connection with the further forever unknowable
fire of all things
and which rocks with a sense of connection, religion
and trembles with a sense of truth, primordial consciousness
and is silent with a sense of justice, the fiery primordial
imperative.
All this is deeper than love
deeper than love.
- D. H. Lawrence
#ElfOnTheShelf
“The latest viral meme trend among the rich and famous is a clever twist on “The Elf on the Shelf,” the popular children’s book that inspired a Christmas tradition involving small, magical house guests that pop up around the holiday season to keep an eye on kids vying for a spot on Santa’s nice list.
But instead of “Elf on the Shelf,” Garcelle Beauvais, Reese Witherspoon, Elizabeth Banks, Sterling K. Brown, Kerry Washington and other entertainment luminaries have been flexing their rhyming skills with their own Photoshopped creations.
It all started with actress Beauvais’ “Garcelle on a Pharrell”: An image of a tiny Beauvais casually sitting on singer-producer Pharrell Williams’ shoulder. And a flood of similarly cheesy posts soon followed...”
LA Times
