Dave Barnett

An artist is a journalist of sorts. But there is a deeper meaning. The ability to connect with others who may share something deeper too.

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Voting for the Top 10 ends Thursday the 28th of May at 7PM PDT

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What is your favorite type of art to create?

I grew up creating collages, drawings, then painting; but then fell in love with photography. What I create is digital collage photography. For me the medium doesn't matter. I have never cared about what brand brush I paint with, or what F stop to use. I find beauty in accidents and what would be discarded, and those things are just a means to the ultimate gift...What is the message? FIND THE SOUL of each image...what is the narrative?

Where do you find inspiration?

I'm a big fan of light. Sprinkle in some symbolism, and drama. I also find inspiration in wildlife all around us. Some thriving, some critically endangered. I see the apathy toward wildlife around us as a symbol of what we as a people are becoming. Threatened, overlooked, dismissed, or all together forgotten and left behind; but there is such beauty as well. We must not take our planet for granted, as well as fantastic individuals that inhabit it.

What would you do with $25,000?

Reinvest in my art. I have some pretty epic ideas that I would really like to bring to life. What an opportunity! I'm ready.

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