“Once upon a time I was an artist! It was snowing, I was 9 and my mum was busy in that multi-tasking dance required to bring home a Sunday Roast. I thought it safer to grab a cartridge pad and see whats on in the garden. I found some snowdrops poking through the snow and sketched a still life. In I went to mum and stopped her in her tracks. She told me I was an artist! I doubt the drawing was all that, but it’s funny how being encouraged like that shapes you.
Being an *ehem* artist, I became rather arty, scoring an A* at GCSE. But my interests in oil & graphite gathered dust once I realised instead of drawing every detail, it was there to be framed and committed to negative. I loved telling stories with pictures, be they still and moving, and before uni took an old film Rollie to Bangladesh on a voluntary stint there. In a visceral culture assaulting all senses, a camera makes absorbing company.
During a year studying Psychology at Nottingham University I was sat in the Vice President’s chair of the Photographic Society and found as I jumped through the academic hoops, that my passions were in pixels and design. My 3rd year project was a quantitative analysis of various learning methods in teaching a photography course.
Bestowed with my 2:1 I hit the road again to see more I’d not yet seen, this time in digital. Shooting round the world I landed back home in November without a plan, and began selling prints of my adventures. I added prints of UK cities to the archives and began selling calendars & stationary to Waterstones and Borders. Before long I was being asked by friends to shoot their weddings. 6 years and a serious nosey round South America later, I’ve created an established wedding photography business, am shooting features for magazines and photographing bands in the vibrant Leeds music scene as well as running my own band night.
I love socialising and have slowly learned that ‘networking’ doesn’t have to be a dirty word. Meeting, training and sharing ideas with like-minded individuals helps all parties move forward and enjoy the journey. The only thing better than the buzz of snatching a moment from the air and sealing it with a bit of cheeky post-production is teaching someone else to do the same and seeing their reaction.
I regularly post my work on my blog, and below are links to my various websites and projects.”
Barnaby Aldrick – March 2010
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- Website // www.barnabyaldrick.com
- Blog // www.barnabyaldrick.com/blog
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