Looking at one photograph at a time
Artichoke Thistle, Spring Transition, copyright 2026 Douglas Stockdale - While doing a few social media posts on Facebook in various groups about my multimedia monotypes, I had a couple of individuals in an alt-photo/printmaking group suggest that if my underlying black and white was a printed via traditional inkjet printing, then what I was creating... Continue Reading →
I am honored to be curated into the LandMark: Landscapes Reimagined photographic exhibition at OC Camera Gallery (Laguna Hills, California), and really excited to have my print as the featured announcement photograph for the exhibition (below). The 'Winter Thistles' print is 24" x 50" wide. Should look pretty cool. The exhibition opens next week, August... Continue Reading →
With recent events I have not been updating my art-blog as frequently as I have in the past. sigh. Thus a little bit of catching up to do as it relates to my alternative photography that has been featured in The Hand magazine over the past year. I will start with the most recent The... Continue Reading →
Memory Pods: Dodho feature, June 2025 - Honored with a feature on Dodho for my Memory Pods series yesterday; a project that I had initiated over ten years ago when I was contemplating how I could metaphorically relate memory loss due to Alzheimer's Disease with the flowering phases of an Aloe Vera plant. To be... Continue Reading →
Blue Horizon (Number 193104) copyright 2024 Douglas Stockdale – I was honored to have my seascape cyanotype Blue Horizon featured this past week on YourDailyPhotograph.com, which is a 11 x 14" image I printed on a 16 x 20" sheet of Bergger Cot 320. I have photographed this stretch of the San Clemente oceanscape on numerous occasions,... Continue Reading →
Entanglement, number 1766-4, copyright 2024 Douglas Stockdale - Towards the end of last year, I was trading emails with another alt-photo artist about my Photolucida Critical Mass 2023 and 2024 Finalist recognition. She had mentioned that she had four Critical Mass Finalist awards, while nothing higher (e.g. Top 50) seemed to occur for her, thus... Continue Reading →
Urban Ashes (number 0175), Airport Fire, September 2024 copyright 2025 Douglas Stockdale - When I started to print my multi-media monotypes, I soon realized that one visual aspect was missing for me; whites and highlights, especially somewhere in the midst of a field of color. So I had a couple of options; use some white... Continue Reading →
Urban Ashes, multi-media monotypes, copyright 2024 Douglas Stockdale - Wow, for the second consecutive issue of The Hand magazine, I have a full page feature of my artwork submissions. Last issue #46 featured my cyanotypes I made from photographs from my assignment in China in 2008, while for issue #47 (above), a bit different subject... Continue Reading →
I am very honored to have the opportunity to co-exhibit with Paul Anderson at the OC Camera Gallery this coming March. Artist statement: Fragmented Realities is an exhibition of two complementary bodies of art by Paul Anderson and myself that investigates the contemporary urban landscape. Both are very divergent in their respective methodologies, pairing the... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Entanglement series) 2024 copyright Douglas Stockdale – Over the holidays, I did some experimentation with polymer photogravure plate making and printing as a potential alternative process for my Urban Ashes project. Nevertheless, the first image I printed as a photogravure was from my Entanglement series, above, as my intaglio print coach recommended using an image that was... Continue Reading →
