Barry M. Winiker

b. 1953

American (New York, New York)

"My fascination with the photography of cruise ships began in 1980 when I passed a ship in the Port of New York, managed to gain access and discovered a totally different world of style, design and function than any I had previously known. Size, scale, whites, blacks and shadows prevailed on a new and engrossing subject matter.

Many years and over one hundred ships later, I’m still attracted to the subject. Compelling me then, and now, was the urge to document details, as these individual elements add up to a more meaningful whole than simply a view of a ship’s profile. There is often a gracefulness to shipboard structures when examined alone, and few people, aboard or ashore, have taken the time to study them." Barry Winiker