His photography has been widely exhibited and published internationally since the 1980s and his work is held in major national and metropolitan collections. Publications include Shifting Nature (University of Otago Press 2001), An Expanding Subterra (Dunedin Public Art Gallery 2010), Torbay tī kōuka: A New Zealand tree in the English Riviera (University of Plymouth Press 2011) and Wayne Barrar: The Glass Archive which accompanied his 2016 exhibition at the Forrester Gallery, Oamaru.