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‘I put a smoke bomb in a road cone and stuck it on my head’: Delton Barrett’s best photograph

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‘It occurred to me that this image looked like someone losing their mind, going ballistic. I tried many shots and was getting tired. Looking back, it’s a wonder I survived’I grew up on New Providence in the Bahamas, and still live on the south side of the island.

‘It occurred to me that this image looked like someone losing their mind, going ballistic. I tried many shots and was getting tired. Looking back, it’s a wonder I survived’

I grew up on New Providence in the Bahamas, and still live on the south side of the island. After leaving school, I worked with my dad in construction, and that’s where I started taking photos. For the first couple of years, I used my flip phone, playing with images of nature and flowers on the sites we were working on, but in 2010 I bought my first DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) camera and started teaching myself about photography.

I started doing a lot of landscapes. I tended to shoot at sunrise or sunset, and became interested in taking photos of people in vacant spaces. Because I didn’t have a model, I used a tripod and a timer to include myself in these very fantasy-looking naturescapes.

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Delton Barrett (PERSON) New Providence (LOCATION) Bahamas (LOCATION)
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