Looking at one photograph at a time
Bluewater Shore, limited edition artist book, copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale Another of my projects this summer has been getting Bluewater Shore into bookstores here in the U.S. as well as in Europe. As is discussed at length in the Indie Photobook Publishing Guide that I posted yesterday, once your book is self-published, there can be... Continue Reading →
copyright Eanna de Freine (The Velvet Cell) 2017 One of my summer projects has been working with Eanna de Freine on the development of his Indie Photobook Publishing Guide as a beta reader, editor as well as providing a self-publishing Case Study (one of 10) for my Bluewater Shore artist books. A number of friends have... Continue Reading →
Seaweed, San Clemente beach, June 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale A month ago I was discussing about my on-going summer beach series that I was posting on Instagram and when I was looking at the resulting print from this post, it appeared kind of "crunchy" (below). The foreground where the seaweed was has some odd halos and the... Continue Reading →
Bluewater Shore, Limited Edition Artist Book, 2017, Douglas Stockdale While earlier discussing my experience as a portfolio reviewer for LACP a couple of weeks ago, what I did not include is that a portfolio reviewer I had the opportunity to do a little networking with the other portfolio reviewers. Emphasis on "little" as the folks... Continue Reading →
Dawn Watson, dnj Gallery, Santa Monica, CA copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale This last weekend I was a guest portfolio reviewer for the LACP EXPOSURE 2017 portfolio reviews and on Saturday I was held at the dnj Gallery in Santa Monica's Bergamont (Arts) Station. Overall it was a great experience as a portfolio reviewer as I... Continue Reading →
I was just notified by LACP (Los Angeles Center of Photography) of a schedule conflict for my Marketing Your Photo Book one-day workshop that it has been rescheduled for Sunday, October 29th. This workshop will NOT occur on Saturday, July 22nd as previously announced. The good news is that all of my workshop materials and... Continue Reading →
Seaweed, San Clemente beach, June 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale One of my recent experiment/fun projects has been to investigate photographic possibilities at the beach, which regretfully as a genre is a mine field of cliche photographs. So rather run from the obvious as I attempt to skirt around these cliches, the rather wonderful aspect of... Continue Reading →
Fog (Memory Pods project) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale I am delighted to announce that another of my Memory Pod project photographs has been juried into an exhibition, which in this case is the 4th Annual Members Exhibition for LACP (Los Angeles Center of Photography). The juror is Paula Tognarelli of the Griffin Museum of Photography... Continue Reading →
Compass Dance, OCMA June 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale Last weekend I was the event photographer again for the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) Family Day held in conjunction with their latest exhibition. Although my intent was to capture the interaction of the attendees with the exhibition, family activities and school concerts, I was able... Continue Reading →
Bluewater Shore, self-published 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale A couple of days ago I was preparing to make another series of bookstore submissions for Bluewater Shore, my limited edition artist book. In looking at my "press photos" for this book, I realized that I needed to have a set of photographs showing the book's cover, with... Continue Reading →
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