About the work

My work primarily involves gathering groups of people together and operating in confined spaces making photographs. Not something that is very advisable in the current climate! So what do you do when all your work for the foreseeable future is cancelled? Well you turn your shed into a camera of course!

In an effort to keep my practice evolving and be of some use to others, I have been making video tutorials on a variety of analogue photographic processes that people can follow at home. The below documents the building and operating of my shed camera, brings together a number of the processes I experiment with and shares some of the materials and approaches I use in my practice.

Interested in experimenting more?

Brendan has also created two other tutorials separate to his Hyperlocal Arts Commission. One explores how you can turn your bedroom into a camera and the other how you can use household items to create film developer.

About the artist

Brendan Barry is a photographer, educator and camera builder whose creative photographic practice combines elements of construction, education, performance and participation. His work is mostly concerned with the transformation of different objects and environments into spaces capable of viewing and capturing a photographic image, using the mechanics of photography as a tool for exploration and collaboration.

Brendan Barry is the copyright holder to all images and film in this online exhibition. No reproduction of any of these images may be made without the permission of the copyright holder.