EVERETT — Photography by Everett Community College graduate Craig J. Barber will be exhibited Jan. 17 to Feb. 10 in the Russell Day Gallery.
Barber, of Seattle, is known for his use of antiquated photography processes, including pictures shot with a homemade cardboard pinhole camera. His platinum prints, made by a monochrome printing process, appear deeper and richer than modern photo development.
Visitors are invited to meet Barber at a reception from 12:30-2:30 p.m. on Jan. 19 at the gallery.
Barber has had more than 60 solo exhibitions worldwide in his 20-year career. He credits his EvCC art instructors in 1976 with giving him the courage to pursue his artistic dreams.
Art instructors John Lindstrom, Lloyd Weller and John Witter “created a supportive environment in which I was able to learn as a student, grow as a human being and experiment as an artist,” Barber wrote for a 2006 EvCC alumni retrospective. “Collectively, they helped me become who I am today.”
Barber served in the Marine Corps in Vietnam from April 1966 to December 1967. He returned to Vietnam in 1995 to begin a series of photographs, which culminated in his 2006 book “Ghosts in the Landscape: Vietnam Revisited.”
Using a pinhole camera, Barber’s images require exposures ranging from five minutes to an hour.
“My work is very much about memory and is an exploration of both where I come from and the quietness that surrounds us, if we just stop and listen,” he told Photo Technique magazine in January 2011.
If you go
Craig J. Barber photography exhibit, Jan. 17-Feb. 10 in the Russell Day Gallery, room 219, Parks Student Union, Everett Community College, 2000 Tower St. More at EverettCC.edu/Gallery. The gallery is open free of charge from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Fridays.
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