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10 Questions Jacques Barbey, photographer
What’s your philosophy when it comes to photography?
Incarnational. Things mean things and everything is a story.
If you weren’t shooting, you’d be...
Painting a beautifully imperfect picture with cerulean blue.
What has been your favorite project and why?
My favorites are those where I made a mistake and learned from. As one reporter back in the day told me, “It’s not how you fall, it’s how you pick your self up and try again.”
Who or what influences your work?
I’m haunted by the classics photo trinity: “The Decisive Moment” by Henri Cartier Bresson; “The Americans” by Robert Frank; and Eugene Smith’s photo essays.
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If you could host a dream dinner party, who would your top three guests (living or dead) be and why?
Joel and Ethan Coen, and Steven Spielberg.
The content of a person’s refrigerator says a lot about them. What’s in yours?
A single head…of lettuce.
In your professional life, what is the one thing you cannot live without?
Command Z, the undo key.
What’s your idea of a perfect day?
Staying in the space of gratitude.
What’s your guilty pleasure? Used bookstores.
What’s on your iPod?
The Liturgy of the Hours, the paintings of El Greco in HD, “The New World” by Terrence Mallick and Pixar’s “Up.” Recently, music-wise, I’ve been burning through and have had an obsession with “Holocene” by Bon Iver.
Contact: Jacques Barbey Photo Arts jacquesbarbey.com + jacques@jacquesbarbey.com
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