ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Although I’ve known Andy since he was my younger son’s classmate in elementary school, when I created this image of him with his ranch dog, he was living off the grid in Colorado and was in his early thirties. My own son, now an urban planner, still maintains contact with his boyhood friend, now an author and environmentalist. This portrait of a man and his dog was taken in a makeshift photo studio that I hurriedly constructed during my son’s wedding in Port Townsend, Washington, where Andy had traveled with his canine companion to join the celebration. This photograph has been widely exhibited and was published in my book, Photography In My Bones – Half a Century of Images by Frank Barnett, winner of the 2017 Independent Publishers Silver Medal Award in Photography.

AUTHOR
Trained as a Cultural Anthropologist at the University of California at Berkeley and Los Angeles during the tumultuous 60s, author and award-winning commercial and fine art photographer Frank Barnett has had a rich, multi-faceted career. From heading marketing and public relations for the University of California Press to founding a carriage-trade bookstore and three fine art galleries, he also owned an advertising and public relations firm for 25 years. His specialty, photojournalism, has taken him from the center of the arena at the famous Pendleton Round-up to the infamous Louisiana State Penitentiary, home of the Angola Prison Rodeo.

For the past 50 years, he has sought access to edgy, outsider subjects from the Berlin Wall to the bedside of his terminally-ill wife, aging nursing home residents, and prison inmates for whom life beyond confinement would never be realized.


His fine art photography includes masterfully executed photomontages. In 1988 Frank co-authored Working Together: Entrepreneurial Couples, published by Ten Speed Press and cemented his reputation as a thought leader in the family entrepreneurial arena. At 80, he is still active as a fine art and commercial photographer. He resides in Salem, Oregon, with his wife and creative collaborator, Martha Solomon. Together, the couple serves museums, corporations, and individuals with award-winning photography, publications, and curated installations. Their next exhibit, "The All American Toy Company – An Oregon Original," is scheduled to open at the Oregon Historical Society Museum in Portland, Oregon, in September, 2019.

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