Looking at one photograph at a time
Untitled (Entanglement series) copyright 2018/2023 Douglas Stockdale - While tweaking my cyanotype prints and artist statement for my Critical Mass 2023 Finalist project and I have been also working on some visual alternatives. I discussed earlier the concept of incorporating a red line as a visual metaphor for the redlining that occurred in the 1930's... Continue Reading →
The Devil's Rope (Entanglement series) 2023 copyright Douglas Stockdale – While continuing to assess my Critical Mass 2023 Finalist project, Entanglement, earlier in the week I had hand-colored a couple of my cyanotypes with Prismacolor art pencils to evaluate an alternative way to provide focus on the Structural Housing Inequities in America for this project. I... Continue Reading →
Earlier when I had announced that I was included in issue #42 of The Hand magazine, I had no idea how many or which of my Entanglement cyanotypes had been included. Tricky devils, they want those who are included in the issue to promote the magazine (cover) and not their images until everyone finally received... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Entanglement series) 2023 copyright Douglas Stockdale – Good news, not so great news; Earlier this fall I found out I was a Critical Mass 2023 Finalist (wohooo!), while I subsequently found out that I was not selected as one of the Top 50 by the 200 curators who made the juried this (Okay, a collective... Continue Reading →
Blue Horizon (number 5505) copyright 2023 Douglas Stockdale - Earlier this year I was in the midst of working on the Last Iceberg cyanotypes when I received my Critical Mass 2023 Finalist notification for my Entanglement cyanotype series. Full stop on the work for Last Iceberg series in anticipation that I might be in the... Continue Reading →
Sea Kelp & Sea Stacks, Bandon, Oregon, copyright 2023 Douglas Stockdale with exhibition photo by Kathleen Koopman, copyright 2023 A little pat on my back shout-out for gardening a Honorable Mention for one of my two cyanotype seascapes that are on exhibition at the Light Art Space exhibition, titled H2O: Shifting Currents that I posted... Continue Reading →
Awareness (Entanglement series) 2023 copyright Douglas Stockdale - Cool! Today is World Cyanotype Day (last Saturday of September, each year), an alternative photographic process discovered in 1843 by Sir John Herschel that utilizes the sun's UV bandwidth to make (blue) prints. Hard to believe I stated experimenting with the cyanotype printing process just one year... Continue Reading →
. This is one of those Good News: Interesting News combinations, which will also be at least a two part series. The Good News is that some of my cyanotypes from my Critical Mass 2023 Finalist (Entanglements) portfolio will be featured in the Fall 2023 issue of The Hand magazine. Very cool and another validation... Continue Reading →
. Update: This book workshop has been delayed until 2024! Revised dates: The new dates are January 20, 21 and then 27, 28th 2024, from 10 AM – 1 PM, Eastern Standard Time (EST). I am excited to announce that I will be leading another virtual book workshop, Developing a Creative Photo Book, with SouthEast... Continue Reading →
Sea Kelp & Sea Stacks, Bandon, Oregon, copyright 2023 Douglas Stockdale Bandon Harbor, Low Tide, Bandon, Oregon, copyright 2023 Douglas Stockdale Delightful news! Two of my seascape cyanotypes were accepted into Light Art Space's exhibition "H2O: Shifting Currents" which was juried by Kristen Martinicic. Backstory: we were in Bandon Oregon last fall for my son's... Continue Reading →
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