Untitled (Evidence #Evidence 081940-02-01-01) copyright 2015 Douglas Stockdale One of my favorite photographic phone apps is Snapseed. Earlier this year I did one of my upgrades for the app, but then realized that the updated did not include the Grunge filter setting. Bummer. I enjoyed playing with the possibilities of this particular filter set as... Continue Reading →
Looking for Atget – Parc Saint Cloud
Untitled (Parc Saint Cloud, France) Copyright Douglas Stockdale 2010 - Just recently I was asked if I had any photographs that investigate the city of Paris, which it turns out, I do. Regretfully, when I was in Paris, I was not inspired to work on a personal project that included Paris as a location, so... Continue Reading →
Buzzz about Branding for artists
Neighborhoods (LA, 2015) copyright 2015 Douglas Stockdale Recently there has been a spat of articles recently published about the necessity of artists to "brand" themselves to improve their presence in the art world, which of course includes photography. This of course means that the galleries can increase the price of the artists works, which should... Continue Reading →
Budding Memory Pods – next version
Untitled (Budding Memory Pods, March 2015) copyright 2015 Douglas Stockdale Earlier this week I posted this same image, but a version with a very distinct blue hue. After having this matted blue version on my work bench for a while, it dawned on me that this was a nice Singular Image, but it would not... Continue Reading →
Budding Memory Pods
Untitled (budding memory pods) copyright 2015 Douglas Stockdale Earlier this week I had posted that I was finding myself being drawn back into my Memory Pods project. The photograph I posted was pretty close to a straight documentary image (which in retrospect is pretty boring at that). I was interested investigating the start of the... Continue Reading →
Budding Aloe Verde
Untitled (#120 Memory Pods) copyright 2015 Douglas Stockdale Last year I found myself photographing of all things, plants. Not a genre that that I have been drawn to before, but while messing around with the macro focusing capabilities of my Samsung 4, I started to investigate some aloe vera plants that had gone to seed in... Continue Reading →
Sidewalk Superintendent
Sidewalk Superintendent (Acuto, Italy, 2010) copyright 2015 Douglas Stockdale Okay, where to start? This photograph was made while I was working on my Ciociaria project, but this image did not make the final edit into the photobook. Nevertheless, it has always intrigued me as this scene is just a little slice of urban life, almost universal... Continue Reading →
Cheesman Park – repose
Untitled (Cheesman Park, February 2015) copyright 2015 Douglas Stockdale Earlier this week I posted another vision of this photograph, one that has a little more dramatic interpretation of this same composition. Many might consider this the more representative version, not entirely banal, but with some metaphoric vestiges. This is part of my investigation of memory, how... Continue Reading →
Picture Postcards
Untitled (MingXinPian #0984) copyright Douglas Stockdale This is a long term and a slowly developing project that I have worked on intermittently these past years. For this photograph I am investigating a feeling about a state of decline or decay. I recently had an opportunity to show this photographic print in conjunction with five similar... Continue Reading →
Elizabeth Avedon’s Best Photography Books for 2014 – and I am on it!
Pine Lake, copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale As a book artist and photobook specialist, this is the time of year that I provide kudo's to all of the photographers, photobook designers, photobook publishers and the book artists who use photography as a part of their creative medium. This year I was asked by Manik Katyal, the... Continue Reading →