Looking at one photograph at a time
Fiuggi Park, Copyright Douglas Stockdale 2010 Early in the morning, this park was teeming with children playing, but then the Italian summer heat set in at noon and that pretty well cleared out most of the families, as it was now a good time to spend some quality time indoors or someplace cooler. When I walk through a small park... Continue Reading →
Fiuggi, Italy July - Copyright Douglas Stockdale 2010 I am back walking Fiuggi again in the hot of the Italian summer, although a tad bit cooler here in the foothills South of Roma. Nevertheless, I am spending considerable time in and out of this little town, an interesting mix of tourism, old town, new city... Continue Reading →
Auberge noir (Insomnia: Hotel Noir series) copyright 2010 Douglas Stockdale - After a relatively long spell, I am working on my Insomnia project again. Perhaps it is the influence of studying the photobooks of Mario Giacomelli and Kiyoshi Suzuki, while I find myself moving to a darker palate and contraster images. You probably could question the relevance as these two photographers were actively photographing during... Continue Reading →
Fuiggi, Italy, Midnight copyright of Douglas Stockdale On my recent trip to Italy, I decided to bring along the tripod to initiate some studies of Fuiggi at night. Not sure that this will develop into a full project, but I am open to "see" what happens. Meanwhile, it is intersting... Best regards, Douglas
West Lake, China 2008 copyright Douglas Stockdale The annual print exchange will be occurring at The Photographers Exchange on Thursday this week, with more about this group, including the time and place of the event, here. To prepare a print for the exchange (you bring one, you take home one), first I realized that I did... Continue Reading →
Fiumicino nets, 2010 copyright Douglas Stockdale - My return to SoCal is a bit disrupted by all the snow in NY with my flight to JFK cancelled, so in the scramble I now have a flight from Rome to London and then non-stop to LA, BUT on Sunday. So an unplanned and extra day in Italy, sad, eh?... Continue Reading →
I think it was the beginning of 2009 that I came up with this brilliant idea of posting items related to my projects on the project blog pages, e.g. anything related to my project Insomnia would be on the Insomnia blog (www.insomniahotelnoir.wordpress.com). Okay, so this was not so brilliant. But like any idea, it was... Continue Reading →
Okay, this is putting a positive spin on reality; one of the up-sides of my intense travel schedule this past four months has been to allow myself some space between finishing my Insomnia: Hotel Noir book dummy last Fall and examining it again now. When I brought this dummy with me to Italy last month, I realized that... Continue Reading →
Fiuggi, Italy, Winter copyright of Douglas Stockdale Half way through the first month of the 2010 New Year and I am just now posting my first article on this blog. I have already posted three or four book reviews, my top ten books for 2009 and some other book information on The PhotoBook, as well as... Continue Reading →
Fiuggi Plazza, copyright Douglas Stockdale 2009 Still thinking about the body of work that I might develop around the city of Fiuggi, Italy, which is located adjacent to an assignment that I am working on. First, I had to get the "classic" photographs of this old city out of my system. Most of the recent images... Continue Reading →
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