Looking at one photograph at a time
Zach, San Juan Hills H.S., San Juan Capistrano, July, 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale Last weekend I attended Zach's swim meet and I continue to be vexed on how to capture good photographs of the swimmers, because if they are swimming well, you do not see much of their faces unless it's the breast stroke, then... Continue Reading →
Loss (Memory Pods project) 2014 copyright Douglas Stockdale I am very excited and honored to announce that Loss from my Memory Pods project was juried into the Irvine Fine Art Center (IFAC) All Media 2016 exhibition. The juror was Dan Cameron who most recently was the past Chief Curator for the Orange County Museum of Art... Continue Reading →
Ciociaria copyright 2010 Douglas Stockdale A curator/book designer just referred me to the LensCulture.com publication group and so now I am in the middle of developing a photographers profile on their site. Similar to my recent Art Photo Index profile, I am starting with my Ciociaria project photographs and book information. I included an edited version of... Continue Reading →
Fiuggi Passage Way 2010 copyright Douglas Stockdale When Art Photo Index (API) was launched a few years back, I was provided with an invitation to join, which I immediately accepted. Regretfully I was in-between web sites and photographic projects and really unsure as what to provide for my profile, thus I opted for the minimal... Continue Reading →
2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale A couple of weekends ago I was again the event photographer at the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) Family Day. Family Day at OCMA is a fun event for me to photograph candids of the children and their parents interacting with the surrounding art as well as the art projects that... Continue Reading →
Susan Burnstine, a Portfolio Reviewer for LACP Exposure 2016 I will be among the 19 Portfolio Reviewers, joining Susan Burnstine (above), Aline Smithson, Julia Dean, Kirk Pederson, Sarah Lee, Chris Davies to name only a few, for the Los Angeles Center of Photography's (LACP) "Exposure 2016" event being held at the end of July at... Continue Reading →
Tracks (Roadside Remembrance series) copyright 2016 Douglas Stockdale - Earlier this month I had a mini-exhibit at Photo Independent (Los Angeles) and subsequently posted that due to some really good feedback, that I was going to radically alter the direction of one of my in-process projects. So a little bit about that today and not that... Continue Reading →
Ciociaria copyright Douglas Stockdale One of the take-aways from Photo Book Independent was that I need to really consider exhibiting my photographs. When more than one person states that my photographic work is exceptional and I keep getting comments that my "work" prints are exquisite, I think I am ready for taking the next step in... Continue Reading →
Photobook Independent, Raleigh Studios, Soundstage #14, 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale At the beginning of this month I participated in a book exhibition at Photobook Independent, held in the Raleigh Studios on their sound stage #14, located in Hollywood, California. Always interesting to poke around a Hollywood studio after hours during the weekend and observe the... Continue Reading →
Pine Lake, self-published artist book, copyright 2013 Douglas Stockdale I am really stoked and honored to announce that my artist book Pine Lake was just featured in SilverShotz magazine; Volume 10, Edition 8 (May 2016). The Silvershotz article includes the background for my semi-fictional story about an American summer rite of passage: a guy's get-away... Continue Reading →
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