E-mail Barney Sellers - barneysellers@bellsouth.net

   Photographer Barney Sellers, noted for his colorful Ozark and Southern rural scenes, is a native of Walnut Ridge, AR.  He's a journalism school graduate of Arkansas State University, and the old Woodard School of Photography in Memphis.  He spent 36 years as a staff photographer with The Commercial Appeal, in Memphis, before retiring and moving to Batesville, Ark, with his wife, Betty Sue, in 1988.  Like any newspaper photographer with longevity, Barney has won many local, state, and national awards, and his work has been published throughout the World. 

   Since 1977 he has done a one man show annually at Black Rock Ar., where he once attended school, with attendance as high as 2,000.  This event was written up in the Miami Herald, Los Angeles Times, Cincinnati Enquirer, Milwaukee Sentinel, San Jose Mercury, Grit, Ozarks Mountaineer, Modern Maturity, and many other newspapers and magazines.  Recently he was featured in a 4-page write-up titled, "Ozark Barn Hunter", in Country America magazine, (Jan.'95).

   Barney's answer to a book is his, 'A Video Postcard'...a 33 minute VHS video tape with 300 of his colorful scenes with background music.

   Nowadays, Sellers stays active adding to his collection of over '50,005' negatives in his inventory, and doing WORKSHOPS/FIELDTRIPS.  His non-people scenes can be seen in homes and offices throughout the World.  He calls his collection, " BARNEY'S BARNS...and RURAL SCENES".  He often shows and sells his work at arts and crafts shows.  Also, he has a collection of large, matted and framed, scenes for gallery shows.  He refers to his works as 'simple little scenes that hurrying people pass by without seeing through the lens of a camera'.  He plans to donate a selection of his work to three libraries.