Bio & CV
Bio
Douglas Stockdale, b. 1949, Pennsylvania (American) is a visual artist located in Southern California and the Senior Editor & founder of PhotoBook Journal, the contemporary photobook review magazine. He also journals on his personal art-photo-blog Singular Images.
He is on the adjunct faculty of the Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP), Medium Photo Festival (San Diego, CA), and SouthEast Center for Photography (SEC4P, Greenville, SC). Previously Stockdale was a portfolio reviewer for LensCulture and a photobook reviewer for photo-eye magazine.
Gallery representation: Fabrik Projects, Los Angeles, California.
Stockdale has a Masters from the University of La Verne, California and an undergraduate degree in design from Michigan State University.
CV
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Memory Pods, The Photographer’s Eye gallery, Escondido, CA
2020 Gardening For Ordnance, Fabrik Projects (Artsty.net) Los Angeles, CA
2018 Middle Ground, Fabrik Projects, Los Angeles, California
2018 Middle Ground, Fabrik Projects, (Artsy.net), Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2023 H20 - Shifting Currents, (Honorable Mention) Light Art Space, Silver City, New Mexico
2023 The Still(ed) Life: Celebrating Handmade Photographic Art, Light Art Space, Silver City, New Mexico
2023 (s)Light of Hand 2023, The Photographers Eye, San Diego, CA
2021 All About the Light, SouthEast Center for Photography (SEC4P), Greenville, S.C.
2021 Flora, SouthEast Center for Photography (SEC4P), Greenville, S.C.
2020 Living and Photographing in the Time of COVID-19, The Photographers Eye, San Diego, California
2020 Here Comes the Sun, Fabrik Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP), on-line exhibition on Artsy.net
2020 Faculty Exhibition, Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP), Los Angeles, CA
2019 Holiday pop-up, Fabrik Projects, Los Angles, CA
2019 Summer Group Show, Fabrik Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Holiday pop-up, Fabrik Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Faculty Exhibition, Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP), Los Angeles, CA
2017 Members Exhibit, Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP), Los Angeles, juried by Paula Tognarelli
2016 All Media 2016, Irvine Fine Arts Center (IFAC), (Honorable Mention), Irvine, CA juried by Dan Cameron
2015 Quarter Century of Sharing the Light, BC Space Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA, curated by the late Mark Chamberlain.
2012 Give us your best Shot, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA curated by Jeff Alu
2009 Photo+Book, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR juried by Christopher Rauschenberg
2007 Connect 07, Irvine Fine Arts Center (IFAC), Irvine, CA juried by Rudy Vega
Permanent Collections
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma (MACRO), Rome, Italy
San Telmo Museo, San Sebastián, Spain
Malcolm A. Love Library, Special Collections, San Diego State University, CA
Frick Fine Arts Library, University of Pittsburgh, PA
Reminders Photography Stronghold, (RPS) Tokyo, Japan
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Franklin Furnace Archive, Brooklyn, NY
School of Visual Arts Library (SVA), NY, NY
Published Books
2022 The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow, Singular Images Press
2022 The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow, Artist Special Edition (Edition 20 + 5A/P)
2019 Middle Ground, Fabrik Press, Los Angeles, book + print box set (Edition: 25)
2018 Middle Ground, self-published, Limited Edition Artist book (Edition: 99)
2017 Bluewater Shore, self-published, Limited Edition Artist book (Edition: 100)
2017 Guide to Self-publishing an Indie Artist Book, Self-published/commission
2013 Pine Lake, self-published, Limited Edition Artist Book (E 25)
2012 Ciociaria Limited Edition book + print (self-published) (E 25)
2011 Ciociaria, Edizioni Punctum, Rome, Italy
2010 Insomnia – Hotel Noir, book-dummy/Marquette
Publications (selected)
2023 The Hand magazine, issue #42, Fall 2023
2021 Lenscratch, Aline Smithson, Editor, The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow
2019 Voyage LA, Life & Art with Douglas Stockdale, Memory Pods project
2018 Lenscratch, Aline Smithson, Editor, Middle Ground, book review
2017 Lenscratch, Aline Smithson, Editor, Douglas Stockdale Mixtape
2016 SilverShotz, May, Pine Lake, book review
2014 Looking at Images, Brooks Jensen, Editor, pg. 252-253 In Passing
2011 Underexposed, Susan Burnstine, Editor, In Focus: Douglas Stockdale
2008 LensWork#74, In Passing, Brooks Jensen, Editor, pg. 30 - 49
2008 LensWork Extended#74 DVD, In Passing, extended portfolio, and interview
2008 Lenscratch, Aline Smithson, Editor; Ciociaria & Insomnia – Hotel Noir
2008 to current, Photo-blogger: Singular Images
2012 - 2014 Photobook reviewer for photo-eye magazine (Santa Fe, NM)
Curatorial projects & artist talks
2022 Juror, Landscape: The Green Environment, SouthEast Center for Photography (SEC4P)
2019 Photo Book Panel discussion, 2019 Exposure Weekend, Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP)
2019 Juror, Photo Book Competition, Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP)
2019 Photo Book as Art, Pasadena Photographic Arts, (PPA), Pasadena, CA
2019 Open Show Los Angeles, Memory Pods project, Fabrik Projects, LA, CA
2019 Photo LA, photobook panel discussion, Santa Monica, California
2019 Curator, Water & Ice, on-line exhibition, SoCal Photo Exchange, California
2018 Curator, Fall, on-line exhibition, SoCal Photo Exchange, California
2018 Curator, Contemporary Landscape Photography, on-line exhibition, SoCal Photo Exchange, California
2018 Curator, CONNECTIONS, on-line exhibition, SoCal Photo Exchange, California
2018 Publishing your Photo Book, Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP), L.A., CA
2018 Photo Book as Art, Palos Verdes Art Center (PVAC), Palos Verdes, CA
2017 Guest Curator, Boundaries, LA Photo Curator
2017 Photo Book Independent, International Photobooks, competition judge
2017 curatorial talk, Photo Book Independent, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Photo Book Independent, International Photobooks, competition judge
2016 curatorial book talk, Photo Book Independent, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Best Photobook of the Year, Fotobookfestival Kassel, Germany
2014 10x10 American Photobooks, NYC; PGH PhotoFair, PA; Tokyo Institute of Photography, Japan
2012 Work, “XI FotoGrafia Festival Internazionale di Roma”, Rome, Italy, 2012 & pop-up at IFAC, CA
Best photobook selections: photo-eyemagazine (Santa Fe, NM), EMAHO magazine (India), The PhotoBook Journal
Awards, honors, events & giving back (selected)
2023 Critical Mass 2023, Finalist, Entanglement series (cyanotypes)
2023 Honorable Mention, H20 - Shifting Currents, Light Art Space, Silver City, New Mexico
2023 University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism, Book Symposium, panelist, Berkeley, CA
2023 Medium Photo, Financing Book Projects for Artist, organizer & panelist, San Diego
2023 Medium Photo, Publishing Artist Books, organizer and panelist, San Diego, CA
2021 Exposure Weekend 2021, virtual Portfolio Reviewer, Los Angeles Center for Photography (LACP)
2019 Exposure Weekend 2019, Portfolio Reviewer, Los Angeles Center for Photography (LACP)
2018 Exposure Weekend 2018, Portfolio Reviewer, Los Angeles Center for Photography (LACP)
2017 Best Photographic Books of 2014, Bluewater Shore, by Elizabeth Avedon
2017 The PhotoBook Journal, Ranked #1 Photobook blog worldwide by blog.feedspot
2017 Exposure Weekend 2017, Portfolio Reviewer, Los Angeles Center for Photography (LACP)
2016 Honorable Mention, Irvine Fine Arts Center (IFAC), All Media 2016, Irvine, CA
2016 Exposure 2016, Portfolio Reviewer, Los Angeles Center for Photography (LACP)
2014 Best Photographic Books of 2014, Pine Lake, juried by Elizabeth Avedon
2013 Text Editor, The Day the Dam Collapses, Hiroshi Watanabe, Daylight Books
2012 Findings 99, interview of Hiroshi Watanabe, iPod, English w/ Japanese translation;
2009 Photographic Project Workshops: Long Beach City College, CA
2009 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR
Workshops
2022 Developing a Creative Photo Book, Medium Photo
2022 Developing a Creative Photo Book, SouthEast Center for Photography (SEC4P)
2021 Developing a Creative Photo Book, Medium Photo
2021 Developing a Creative Photo Book, SouthEast Center for Photography (SEC4P)
2021 Developing a Creative Photo Book, Los Angeles Center for Photography (LACP)
2020 Developing a Creative Photo Book, SouthEast Center for Photography (SEC4P)
2020 Developing a Creative Photo Book, Medium Photo Festival, San Diego, CA, March
2019 Developing a Creative Photo Book, Medium Photo Festival, San Diego, CA, March
2017 Introduction to Photo Book Design, Los Angeles Center for Photography (LACP), October
2017 Introduction to Photo Book Design, Los Angeles Center for Photography (LACP), May
2009 Developing a Photographic Project, Long Beach City College (LBCC), Long Beach, CA
2009 Self-publishing Your Photographic Book, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR
Education
1991 Masters, University of La Verne, La Verne, CA
1971 Bachelors, Industrial Design, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI