Jacob Barrett

My love for photography has grown from my love of animals. Photographing animals is a deeper way to connect with nature, and animals as individuals. Sharing this connection with humans makes the whole process even more fulfilling.

I started out experimenting with photography with my iPhone and a pair of binoculars. In the Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge in Sanibel, FL around sunset, I spotted a Yellow-crowned Night Heron sitting atop a Red Mangrove. The bird was too far away to capture with my iPhone camera alone, but when I used my binoculars with the phone, I was able to snap a rather nice photograph of the beautiful bird.

As I have become more serious about photography I’ve acquired more appropriate equipment and refined the story I am trying to tell with my art. I strive to reveal animals in the moment, when they’re most being themselves. In the wild, animals are inextricably connected to and affected by the ecosystems in which they live and die. All residents of the planet Earth are bound together in the singular planetary ecosystem called the biosphere. Through my art, I hope to inspire people to recognize this truth, to see and feel our interconnectedness with all life, and through such awakened awareness begin to ...