A first-generation Jamaican Bahamian, Delton Barrett’s parents migrated to The Bahamas just before his birth where he began to learn more about his gifts and newfound art skills acquired in High School. In 2010 while working with his father in the construction field a growing interest in photography started as he would use his cell phone to capture images during his lunch break. Delton’s interest in photography later became a passion which lead him to purchase his first professional camera in 2011 and from there he never looked back.
As a self-taught photographer, Delton Barrett often teases the boundary of experimental photography; preferring to reject tradition in favor of reinvention to produce an innovative and more thought-provoking idea. Barretts’s photographs are rich, vibrant, and bold, centering around the artist as the vessel to relay the emotions, concepts, and ideas inspired by twenty-first-century island life. Barrett grounds himself in nature, allowing this engagement to teach him stillness. This act of grounding and “freezing” for the frame, allows him to explore self-portraiture without disrupting the landscape and intended composition. Barrett prioritizes this relationship; he shares “I see everyday objects stay in environments so long until overtime it becomes intimately connected to that space with the help of time, seasons and years. I try not to disrupt that peace but rather make myself one with it. This practice drives me to think and improvise ways of making myself coexist with my surroundings. What I seek to say or show is the relationships that can happen between man and the things around him.” Barrett’s focus is on creating images that embrace the freedom of nature, the transition of mankind’s technology and to create stories that portray the irony of life itself.