Looking at one photograph at a time
Watching the second night of the second round of the Democratic President debates in Detroit last night to obtain some more information as to who is going to be the next American President. As expected, one of the many issues was immigration, pathway to American citizenship, illegal border crossing, deportation and indirectly the American-Mexican border... Continue Reading →
I-5 Southbound, San Diego, February 2019 copyright 2019 Douglas Stockdale First, this is not meant to be an inspiring photograph as it's a cell phone drive-by grab shot. Essentially a quick visual note about the evolving demolition of the I-5 middle plant divider as this freeway winds down along the Pacific Ocean coast in San... Continue Reading →
Books in Boxes, Middle Ground/En Medio Tierra 2018 Douglas Stockdale After meeting with the Dual Graphs pre-press team to provide the final tweaks and approval of the art work, the job went to the press. I also did a quick assembly of the hard copy prints to create a trial book dummy just to really,... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground, book dummy 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale When I was re-examining my Middle Ground project in the context of how symbolic the subject was to the issues facing the DREAMers, I realized that another way to underscore this concept was to have the book's text in both English and Spanish. A gringo process to... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground, Book Dummy #2, top view 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale Earlier this month I had discussed my first book dummy (proof of concept) that I had developed for the Middle Ground project to explore the idea of using a leporello (accordion) book design. My next step was to create a book dummy (#2) that... Continue Reading →
San Diego Port of Entry (Middle Ground) 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale While thinking that since I have essentially completed my political satire about the #stablegenius's "da wall" and ready to get 'er launched as I posted earlier this week, I find my self distracted by another of the #stablegenius attempts to divert everyone's attention away... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground, Book Dummy two, February 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale while on our ski vacation last week and the drive back over the past two days (yep, road trip from Southern California to Colorado and back again), I had a great opportunity to think about my various photographic projects, especially the current photobook that I... Continue Reading →
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