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I am very excited to announce my participation at an upcoming photographic event; a photobook panel discussion during this year's PhotoLA on February 3rd, 2019. PhotoLA – Photobook Roundtable: From Gallery Walls to Printed Pages; 11:30 – 1:30pm I will be joining Richard Chow (moderator), Aline Smithson, Dotan Saguy and Khodr Cherri for a photobook... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground, Book-dummy #4, 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale One of the take-aways from the leporello book-dummy kit that I had received from the printer was some additional design tweaks to the cover. Two days ago I received a couple of samples of the revised cover design; I think a Winner is in the House! To... Continue Reading →
Columbia boots, Oso Creek, January 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale After my leather Merrill hiking books bit the dust last week, I was in the market for some new books; waterproof, not necessarily leather, mid-ankle, not a low rider and although primarily for the terrain of Southern California, needed to work over a short duration in... Continue Reading →
Interesting Photobooks for 2017 selection by TPBJ staff 2017 photo copyright Douglas Stockdale Interesting and unexpected news this weekend; while working on the Middle Ground book dummy I received an email that stated my other photo-blog The PhotoBook Journal was named one of the top 20 blogs about photobooks. Very cool! Then it got better, much,... Continue Reading →
Hasselblad, prism, 150mm lens with extension tubes copyright 2016 Douglas Stockdale In my recent post about my walks off the grid and the potential start of a new photographic project, I had stated that I need to start carrying my Hasselblad film rig with me to continue this exploration. Which meant that I needed to remove... Continue Reading →
Introduction to Photo Book Design, self-published 2017, Douglas Stockdale In preparation for the next two-day workshop Introduction to Photo Book Design that I will be leading for LACP, I am in the process of making the edits to my first self-published work-book that I use for this workshop. This will soon become the Second Edition of... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale I am very happy to announce that I just received a book commission from a company that I have been mentoring on photobooks. This is going to be a bit of whirl wind affair in that the book has to be developed, printed and launched by the end of October. Although... Continue Reading →
Bluewater Shore, limited edition artist book (at Arcana), copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale Yesterday I had an opportunity to meet with Lee Kaplan at his bookstore, Arcana: Books on the Arts, which is located in Culver City (CA) and present my three books; Bluewater Shore, Pine Lake and Ciociaria. I am now very happy to announce... 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 →
