Kiri Barker took her first creative photograph at the impressionable age of 16, with a pinhole camera in her homeland of Tasmania, Australia. The passion for ‘Painting with Light’ was born and she studied photography for 5 years – vocationally and then majoring in photography in a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Tasmania. Her study developed skills from film processing to photograms, from portraiture to street photography.

Over the years Kiri's portfolio has expanded, especially while travelling abroad. Influenced by the black and white photojournalism tradition of the 1940’s – 1970’s, she has taken inspiration from photographers such as Bill Brandt, Doisneau, Walker Evans, Klein, Levitt, Paul Strand, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Alfred Stieglitz and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Kiri has also developed her career in marketing and advertising in the media industry, working for newspapers in both Australia and Ireland. Understanding the importance of personal development she has trained through the Newspapers Society in a Media Skills Qualification, and graduated from Queen's University Belfast in Marketing, Advertising and PR.






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