Barrie Machin

Approaching 80 I set out to do a year (four seasons) of single line self-portraits:Crawling Towards The Exit; cryptic autobiography, idiosyncratic reflections, potential short stories, and cartoons commenting on current events. . I think I was influenced by Leonard Cohen and not a little by James Thurber. Some of my art is on instagram.

As an ethnographer I have over 90 hours of historic videos from. Greece, Sri Lanka, India, Brazil and Australia including the prize winning Iramudun and Burnt Harvest. I was described by Fadwa El Guindi in 2007 as the earliest anthropologist to make extensive use of video in the book Visual Anthropology: Essential Method and Theory.

My Greek films were the first ethnographic films shot in single-system super 8.

Awards:American Blue Ribbon for the best film in cultural studies 1984, the prize for a film of outstanding scientific and artistic excellence, Second International Visual Anthropology Film Festival, Parnu Estonia 1988, and the Anthropos-Omega Lifetime Achievement Award 1988 in association with the Festival dei Popoli alongside Jean Rouch, Claudine de France and Karl Heider.

Professor André Singer says:

(CEO and Creative Director, Spring Films, London.

Adjunct Research Professor of Anthropology,

USC Dornsife, Los Angeles, USA.

Vice-President, Royal Anthropological Institute, London.)

Barrie Machin has worked on his own pioneering super 8 and portable video and has amassed a unique and impressive body of work, which he is now making available via the internet. The films were not made for broadcasting but work well on computers and tablets which makes them particularly relevant for today's massive expansion in the use of such devices.

His work includes a complete set of Sri Lankan rituals to be found nowhere else as far as I know...

There are also rare videos about the Nambiquara the Amerindian people written about by Claude Levi Strauss..

Other books include Antarctica: A Travel Survival Guide, comic sketches from 1982 in Beyond the Cringe, The Moral Premises of Nuclear War, a children’s book David is An Animal, and a book of his prints—La Rêverie Sauvage.

Stelianos Bervanakis: a war story The extraordinary story of survival

and

Warriors And Maidens an Ethnographic Study of Cultural Codes in a Western Cretan Mountain Village

Sometimes someone comes into your life that has a huge impact on you. This person may have no idea he had such animpact but I want to tell this person that he has changed me in a very profound way.

Thank you Barrie Michael Machin for showing me who I am. Alexander Markis -Asi Goniot descendant in Melbourne

I am astonished with the photos you have published from my village, which I love a lot. Because you take us lots of years back a lovely past and you remind us of beloved people.We owe you lots of gratitude because with you this past would have be lost in time all the village.

When will you come to Asi Gonia we would be very honoured to welcome you in our village. YiannisKoundourakis Crete

In Asi Gonia, I realized how big an impact your photos have on the locals. It was the "in" topic of the day. They were eagerly talkingabout the pictures everywhere-at the ''platea", in the coffee shops, at the bakery, at social gatherings, weddings, etc. (Who could it be,how men looked then, older women taking pride in their youth, youngsters surprised at the old way of cultivating land, the good-olddmes although they had less, some reminiscing about those who passed away, etc. I even heard some saying that they wouldn't mindhaving an album of a collecdon. Nina Poulis Petrakis Athens

All your anthropological work has left a serious legacy and countless indelible memories for all the villagers. It is an ideal opportunity toremember the old and learn. All of us thank you and wait and other photographic material for endless stories and memories. Spiros Meladakis Asi Gonia

And with Jacob Machin David Is An Animal