Born in Prague - grew up in Austria - loves India - lives in Glasgow My love of painting and drawing was extinguished in my early teenage years by over enthusiastic art teachers during a course for "painting and applied arts". For a while I satisfied my urge for expression with sculpture and modelling but found it difficult to integrate it into my life as I was moving house fairly regularly. This problem grew once I had successfully dropped out of university deciding that six years of biology weren't worth the hassle. Austria wasn't the right place to study whale behaviour anyway. My part time job as a raft and canyoning guide became fulltime, help me to finance my trips to Asia and South America and paid for my photography. Even the most exciting job gets tiring after a while and alpine waters do not get any warmer! I had always loved photography but until a few years ago had never realised that it is actually the thing I want to do in life. It allows me to travel, is challenging and keeps being interesting. Photography is the tool to make people open their eyes and see, Barbara Tomas |
photo by Dicky, Glasgow 2002 |