Looking at one photograph at a time
With the COVID restrictions backing off due to the amount of immunization and social controls everyone is using, I thought it was time to update my social media selfie photo. For the past couple of years, my selfie photo included a wide-brim hat which hid my pony-tail while I am wearing a mask, sort of... Continue Reading →
For the artist book I now envision (book pre-visualization!), I want to bind it with a very simple, but elegant pamphlet stitch. Assembled and bound it should look like what I posted in my last article. And there are a numerous ways to complete a pamphlet stitch and a relatively simple production fixture, called a... Continue Reading →
The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow (book-dummy) copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale – A quick status report on my book-dummy for The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow , which appears to be slowly making some good progress. I seem to be heading towards a small edition artist book, perhaps in conjunction with a book + print... Continue Reading →
Photograph 2022 copyright Jean Wilder With recent events going on, specifically the Russian invasion and war with Ukraine, I have been distracted and neglected to provide some self-promotion for an exhibition, All About the Light, that I am in. Currently on-going at SouthEast Center for Photography (SEC4P) in Greenville, S.C., which will close this weekend... Continue Reading →
Kyiv (Remembering Guernica) Number II, copyright 2020/2022 Douglas Stockdale This is the second version of my Kyiv (Remembering Guernica) artwork, a slight modification of what I published yesterday. The image now has a landscape orientation, which resonates in that Kyiv and Guernica are both cities and for me I visualize urban landscapes as horizontals. Visually this also symbolic of... Continue Reading →
Kyiv (Remembering Guernica) copyright 2020/2022 Douglas Stockdale I find myself in a similar place that Picasso did in 1938 when Hitler bombed the civilian city of Guernica in Spain during the Spanish Civil War; how does one portray the suffering wrought by needless violence and chaos of an unprovoked attack? Similar to Guernica, the city of... Continue Reading →
Anthropogenic Crisis No. 090521 (Ukraine Crisis) copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale Although I have been working on an environmental art project, Anthropogenic Crisis, related to climate change driven by global warming of the oceans, I cannot look away from the rapidly unfolding geopolitical crisis in Ukraine created by a mad Neo-Nazi leader in Russia. This is... Continue Reading →
Anthropogenic Crisis No. 175448 (Burning Palms) copyright 2016/2021 Douglas Stockdale A moment to have some fun with an unusually day that incorporates a lot of two's: 2-22-22; Twosday. Thus my Anthroprogenic Crisis artwork utilizing a pair of subjects to celebrate this day. Cheers, Doug ____ Workshops: Medium Photo: Developing a Creative Photo Book, a virtual (Zoom) workshop I... Continue Reading →
Anthropogenic Crisis No. 122955 (Vail) copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale The road trip diary continues (day one, Zion here), as the real destination for our one-week vacation in Colorado was the town of Vail. This town is really well known for it's skiing and regretfully this is the year that I not sure my legs were up to... Continue Reading →
Anthropogenic Crisis No. 14394 (Zion) copyright 2022 Douglas Stockdale We just returned from an interesting road trip to Colorado and back. As we call it; an opportunity to 'visit' the snow. Our first real trip since the start of the pandemic, which being fully vaccinated, we still employed various cautions, such as wearing a mask, which is... Continue Reading →
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