John Barker

Born in Essex, England. Obtained Photography degree in 1988 and then was an anti-apartheid activist and human rights defender for over thirty years. Fifteen of of which working in Africa. I now live in the Belfast Hills area in the north of Ireland.
Building on early photographic and visual arts work, heavily influenced by the turbulent 1980s with political unrest and industrial decline; now produces abstract photographs and intaglio prints of objects representative of rural decay.

BA (Hons) Applied Photography, Film & Television (Harrow School of Art)