Bonnie Barnes has travelled and photographed around the world. Scenes appear in her work from Yellowstone Park, New Mexico, Montana, Winnipeg, as well as Africa, Jordan, Myanmar, Mongolia and Cuba, and others. Her interest is on the natural world, often on the frontier. Distant lands call her, and the people of those lands.

 

Currently she is studying under Ron Tarver, a Fine Arts Photographer and an assistant professor at Swarthmore college. She has participated in workshops across the country. Barnes has shown work in juried shows on the east coast and has sold work from Vermont to Australia.

 

Presently her focus is the pursuit of digital photography in all of its forms. She is informed by black and white photography and influenced by many. She pays homage to the greats, Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Brassai, and Sally Mann, as well as Ron Tarver.

 

Barnes’ images are often poetic and dreamlike, with a mystical and mysterious quality.

 

Earlier Ms. Barnes earned two masters degrees and pursued a career in psychology. At that time she wrote articles for Stephen Perloff’s Photo Review, and took classes in the history of photography with Mr. Perloff, and pursued her own work in black and white silver gelatin.

 

Barnes collects photography and is a member of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Friends of Alfred Steiglitz . She sits on a number of boards of non-profit organizations in Philadelphia and Vermont, supporting artists, writers, and musicians as well as photographers, both established and emerging. She divides her time between Philadelphia and Waitsfield, Vermont.