Looking at one photograph at a time
China cyanotype series, copyright 2008/2024 Douglas Stockdale I am really honored that Issue #46 of The Hand magazine (Fall 2024) provided me with a full page feature of my China cyanotype series. My cyanotypes had been featured twice before in The Hand, while either singular images or as a pair. So a full page feature... Continue Reading →
Wo Zhi Kan Kan (JiaShan, China) 2008/2023 Copyright Douglas Stockdale - I am very honored that my cyanotype print titled “Wo Zhi Kan Kan” (Mandarin for "I Am Just Looking") was selected by guest juror, Ann Jastrab (Executive Director/Curator of the Center for Photographic Art, in Carmel, CA) for The Photographer's Eye (Escondido, CA) (s)Light of Hand... Continue Reading →
Wo Zhi KanKan (I am just looking), (JiaShan, January 2008 #2829) 2023 copyright Douglas Stockdale - When I had decided to experiment with Cyanotypes last October as an alternative photographic process, I wanted to test the waters with a very minimum investment in equipment, facilities and processes. Especially since I was considering Cyanotypes as the... Continue Reading →
Wo Zhi KanKan (I am Just Looking) (JiaShan, China) Copyright 2023 Douglas Stockdale - Another morning in which I woke up with a list of plans and just like Charlie Brown, I wonder off and find myself working on sometime different. I just can't seem to stay on the reservation. That darn creative muse, eh?... Continue Reading →
Hongqaio, night copyright Douglas Stockdale 2008 Sometimes I find that I get into a mode in which I assume what I see is what is 'really' there versus paying attention to what is actually there. Case in point is the night landscape, above, that I made many years ago in China and for some dang... Continue Reading →
I am a bit compulsive and even when I have few other things to do, I still deferred to work on the rough edit of this body of work. Which is now done. Whew! So the final tally is 190 photographs winnowed down from the original 4,000 photographs I made while in China. Not all... Continue Reading →
In my last update about my TechTransfer project I had discussed how this project was continuing to evolve. At that time I had converted 108 images to Black & White, and now I am up to 160 converted photographs. Musically I can sense a number of different riffs on this body of work so I... Continue Reading →
A status report on the progress of my TechTransfer project that I discussed in my last post while considering an extensive body of photographic work I had created earlier in China. First, I am becoming more comfortable with the working title TechTransfer, which still might morph to one of my earlier names that I was... Continue Reading →
After writing my opinion article about China's sterile garment manufacturing, I found it was also a time to pause and think about the body of work I created while assisting with the operational Technology Transfer (aka TechTransfer) in China. And then even broader consideration as to the various technology transfers I have worked (and photographed)... Continue Reading →
Yesterday, when posting my selfie Masked Man, I had alluded to my professional life that pays the bills for my artistic endeavors. My Life Science career has been a wonderful mix of manufacturing & logistics, technical operations, and scientific discover; truly an interesting mashup of left and right brain thinking. Background: One of the consulting... Continue Reading →
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