David Barette is a photographer and occasional collagist who attempts to capture the strange, surreal and mysterious in the everyday. His imagination is fired by postcard racks, graffiti, walls, jazz, backs of heads, The Smiths, views from trains, Lisbon light, Duchamp, detritus, the films of Aki Kaurismäki, the Cornish coast, Javier Marías’ Your Face Tomorrow, acers and zen gardens, the ethereal, Brassaï, the street, the sea, Arthur Lee songs, derelict factories, clouds, Patti Smith’s Horses, rain on windows, Man Ray and Kiki de Montparnasse, the mystery of time.
