Fairy Lights – Enchanting Photography by Barry Underwood

Barry Underwood draws inspiration from his early theatrical training. His familiarity with set design and staged photography tranforms perfectly ordinary landscapes into something right out of science fiction. Barry uses tiny luminescent material, LED lights, and specialized photographic effect to create magical landscapes. In his artist’s statement, he said: “My artwork examines community and land-use in rural, suburban and urban sites. I created this series of installations by researching local agricultural, industrial, and recreational land-use. Curiosity about ecological and social history of specific places drives my work. By revealing the beauty and potential of an ordinary landscape an everyday scene is transformed into a memorable, visual experience. Each photograph image is a dialogue – the result of my direct encounter with nature and history. Inspired by land art, landscape photography and painting, as well as cinema, my images are both surreal and familiar.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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