Lisa Barnard (*1967) is a British artist, researcher and teacher whose photographic practice focuses on real events, using polymorphic strategies. Her projects use both traditional documentary techniques, such as photography, audio, video and text, and more contemporary visual techniques and computer forms. Barnard combines her interest in aesthetics and current debates around the materiality of photography with the political climate within critical projects, centered on new ecologies, new t [...]
Lisa Barnard (*1967) is a British artist, researcher and teacher whose photographic practice focuses on real events, using polymorphic strategies. Her projects use both traditional documentary techniques, such as photography, audio, video and text, and more contemporary visual techniques and computer forms. Barnard combines her interest in aesthetics and current debates around the materiality of photography with the political climate within critical projects, centered on new ecologies, new technologies, science and the military-industrial complex.
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“Barnard describes herself as a photographic artist, but her work appears undeniably political. It pays homage to the tropes of documentary realism, while sabotaging them. – Sean O Hagan, The Guardian, review of Chateau Despair.
Barnard is Associate Professor and Head of the Masters Program in Documentary Photography at the University of South Wales. In addition to regularly exhibiting her projects, she has published three monographs, including two with GOST (Chateau Despair, supported by the Council for the Arts and Hyenas of the Battlefield, and Machines in the Garden, supported by the Albert Renger-Patzsch Prize). Her third publication, The Canary and the Hammer, was published by MACK.