New England Fisherman

A black and white portrait of an old whiskered fisherman with rain coat and hat. WM. Russell, Baron Boston Mass 8/78

Barry Iverson, (b.1956, America), has been living and working in Egypt for more than forty years. Using film and a large format camera for much of his work and printing in a traditional wet dark- room, Iverson’s photographs, rich in detail and tone, revisit the earlier days of the medium. He has long explored issues of memory and its historical context and the desert landscape has been of particular interest to him for many years. Iverson played an important role in rescuing the archive of Master Photographer Van Leo and in reviving the hand-colored process made famous in the first half of the 20th century, a tradition that harks back to historical picture postcards. A recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in 1985 to research the history of photography in Egypt, Iverson’s influence by his predecessors in the region such as Frith, Green, Du Camp, and Hunt & Baker is evident in much of his work as is the documentary work of Walker Evans. Iverson is represented in several private and public collections including Harvard University and the American University in Cairo. In 1994 Iverson published the much sought after Comparative Views of Egypt, Cairo: One Hundred Years Later (Zeitouna). He is a former TIME Magazine photographer and continues to work on editorial as well as commercial commissions.