Thomas Barbey was born in Connecticut in 1957, and was taken to Europe by his parents when he was six months old. After Italy and Germany, he went to Switzerland where he lived for 17 years. He left the University of Geneva after one semester to pursue a career in the music business. After entering the Italian music charts, he moved to Italy and stayed there for 15 years. He successfully pursued the music business to pay his bills and kept photography as an expensive hobby. He then owned a full-blown fashion photography studio in the early 90s and finally moved back to America in 1995.
Today he's teamed up with his wife Suzanne and they both live in Las Vegas. She takes care of the business side and he works on the black and white surrealistic images that he likes to call "photomixage."
