Singular Images

Artist, education and mentor, I am the the Editor & founder (2008) of The Photobook Journal, Associate Editor and founder of SoCal PhotoExchange, on the Faculty of Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP), and a submission reviewer for LensCulture.

My gallery representation is Fabrik Projects, Los Angles.

I provide book and photography workshops thru LACP and Medium Festival of Photography. My next workshop in conjunction with Medium Festival is Photo Book Design on March 16 & 17th, 2019 in San Diego. It will be an intense and fun two day event.

I work with (Mentor) individuals and organization regarding the development of artistic/photographic projects, for the design, editing, sequencing, development and marketing of artist/photographic books and projects. I provide Mentorship thru the LACP mentorship program. I am also a portfolio reviewer for LACP’s EXPOSURE event each spring. Please contact me if you would like more information on how I can help you move forward towards your publishing goals or help focus your photographic project.

Singular Images is my personal photo-blog where I share my thoughts about photography and personal photographic projects. I visually explore aspects of family, culture, memory and its preservation. More about my photographic and book work can be found at my website www.douglasstockdale.com

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Bluewater Shore is a sequel to Pine Lake, and is a self-published artist book (2017) in a limited edition of 99 with 5 A/P’s. This is a semi-fictitious short visual story one set in the late 1940’s about about a young woman’s exciting unescorted holiday trip to the shore with her friends. Bluewater Shore investigates a new sense of independence for women that occurred during and following World War II as well as family, memory and American culture. The limited edition artist book was developed from re-purposed vernacular photographs from the artist’s family archive and the concept was partly inspired by Kodak and Ansco promotional booklets that were available with dime/drug stores film processing in the 1950’s and into the 1960’s.

Bluewater Shore has been reviewed by Gerhard Clausing, Gabriela Cendoya and selected as Best Photographic Books for 2017 by Elizabeth Avedon.

Guide to Self-Publishing an Indie Artist Book was self-published in late 2017 and launched at the Medium Festival in San Diego, Oct 2017. The Guide was reviewed by Gerhard Clausing and is now available directly from me.

Pine Lake is a self-published artist book in a limited edition of 25 released in 2013. My worn and faded family photographs became symbols for the remaining bits and fragments of my family memories. Pine Lake is an investigation of what might have been. Pine Lake was selected by New York book designer Elizabeth Avedon as one of her Best Photographic Books for 2014 and is in the permanent collection of the Reminders Photography Stronghold Library, Tokyo, Japan. Out of Print.

Ciociaria is a hardcover photobook published by Edizioni Punctum (Rome, Italy) in the Fall of 2011. It is a photo-documentary investigation into the preservation of memory in a region in central Italy that has neither a defined border or a known history. Ciociaria can be purchased from me directly or on-line at photo-eye bookstore and other specialty fine art and photography book stores.

Limited Edition photographs from Ciociaria were acquired by the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma (MACRO) for their permanent collection of contemporary photography.

In Passing is a photo-documentary portfolio that was featured in LensWork, #74 (Jan-Feb 2008). A book dummy has been developed.

Sharpening Photographs for Print on Demand Publishing (self published, Blurb) Out of print

The PhotoBook Journal Journal is an e-zine in which we discus and review contemporary photographic books. Previously I was a contributing photobook reviewer for Emaho and photo-eye e-magazines.

Associate Editor and founder of The Photo Exchange  A photo-blog sponsored by a photographic group that meets monthly at the Irvine Fine Arts Center (IFAC), CA.

Also available to provide workshops and presentations/discussions about photobooks as art objects.

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