Archive for the ‘DOUGLAS MARK BLACK’ Category

Dry Line on the Horizon

Tuesday, December 27th, 2011

Amongst other things over the Christmas break, I have been reviewing a heap of slides and negatives that I took as a teenager during various trips we took in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia. It was the time of the trusty RICOH 35 EFL and Pentax P30n, 35mm film cameras. Below 3 shots of the vast Etosha Pan in Namibia.

It’s my retrospective tribute to Hiroshi Sugimoto. Happy Holiday’s from Australia!

1650 Group Show – Untitled

Saturday, December 10th, 2011

Two photographs selected for Group Exhibition at 1650 Gallery, Echo Park, Los Angeles. See the Exhibition Print and the selected photograph for the Online Annex Photograph above. For further details on the Exhibition please visit 1650 Gallery.

DORP* series features on Urbanautica

Friday, September 30th, 2011

I am very pleased to have recently had a series of my photographs featured on the contemporary landscape photography platform, Urbanautica. You can read the accompanying text and see the featured images on the Urbanautica site or alternatively visit Urbanautica’s facebook page.

I have included the introductory text by Steve Bisson, Urbanautica founder below, as well as a few thumbnails.

DORP*

DORP*

_Statement

The series studies the architectural aesthetic created by the need for physical and economic survival in ‘small town’ rural South Africa.

In Adelaide (Eastern Cape) and countless other poor provincial towns like it, the traditional western notion of home within an urban context has become altered by the need for economic and personal survival. Homes, shops and places of business have security bars over the doors, windows and patios, creating almost ‘zoo-like’ enclosures.
Often windows and doors are removed to the absolute functional minimalism to ensure security. Allowing a sense of normal ‘function’ within the dwelling itself, the resultant net effect on the urbanscape becomes quickly self evident.

The street effectively becoming lined with ‘human cages’ for living and shopping, the latter, with no promotional budget, showcase the veneer of local advertising. An attempt at economic sustainability.

*Title from the Afrikaans phrase ‘DORP’ meaning village/small town. The images were captured in and around the small rural town of Adelaide, Eastern Cape.

This is an ongoing photographic exploration.

To view the series on my own website please follow this link.

Latest Published Book Cover

Friday, September 30th, 2011

The Dispatcher - Ryan David Jahn

Grafitti Cat

Sunday, July 31st, 2011

Grafitti-Cat

Latest Published Work

Saturday, July 23rd, 2011

Fog on the Tyne – Book Cover

Thursday, June 16th, 2011

Fog on the Tyne

Bestselling author, Bernard O’Mahoney’s new book, Fog on the Tyne features Douglas Mark Black’s photography on the cover.

Hartslag – Book Cover Image

Thursday, June 16th, 2011

Douglas Mark Black’s photography features on the cover of Holt & Holt’s book Hartslag.

HARTSLAG

The Pinnacles, Nambung National Park, Western Australia

Sunday, June 12th, 2011

The Pinnacles, Nambung National Park, Western Australia

The Pinnacles, Nambung National Park, Western Australia

The Pinnacles, Nambung National Park, Western Australia

Taken at sunset in the centre of the Park, this and others images from the spectacular Pinnacles Desert to soon be added to the stock collection, here: x

re_reboot

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

At last the ‘new’ website is ready – so the focus now can return to photography.

www.douglasmarkblack.com

A summary of work can be viewed on the links below:

_FINE ART
DORP*
Decay
Abandoned
Still
Flux
Dust

_STOCK
Figure
Conceptual
Destination

Fractures

Sunday, May 1st, 2011

DAGBEHANDELING – FRANCK THILLIEZ.
New cover image by Douglas Mark Black.

DAGBEHANDELING - FRANCK THILLIEZ

melbourne streets [early am]

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

Statement: Art of Decay

Sunday, March 20th, 2011

The edited gallery and statement for my recent work The Art of Decay is now live on the site. This can be read below, and the full series of images viewed on the site here.

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What happens to an object, once it is discarded?
A non-organic, non-biodegradable, object?

What happens to the packaging (or container) that encloses such an object?

What happens when the negative impact of the discarded packaging is worse than the perceived beneficial impact of the object or commodity itself?

What if the object is an oil derivative? And the packaging is steel?

Is there art in the process of humanity’s own self destruction?

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#19 – #28 urban series – mobile snapshots

Sunday, February 27th, 2011

An update to my mobile/cellphone urban snapshots series.
See the full series here.

#19

CAFE’ AND LUNCH BAR

#20

PARKING AT REAR

#21

BACK DOORS

#22

AIRCONDITIONING

#23

SPILL

#24

UNDER THE BRIDGE

#25

REAR

#26

MIRROR

#27

PROGRESS

#28

POSTERS

#014 urban series – layers

Monday, February 14th, 2011

#14

def: 3. deceleration – the act of decelerating; decreasing the speed

Saturday, February 12th, 2011

I recently added a couple of camera’s to my film collection.

… pictured below along with my pleasantly indescicive holga, are the latest two additions; a 35mm Olympus Trip and a No.2 Folding Autographic Brownie (minus stylus pen – so anyone wanting to sell one please email me!).

I am writing this post not so much as to speak about cameras but to speak about how using this equipment forces you to slow down/decelerate and think a little more about what you are doing. When everyone is armed with a semi-automatic dslr weapon shooting 60 frames a second, it’s going to be more interesting to swim against the tide – and at least from a fine art perspective – put the tools in place to create a genuinely alternative appraoch.

…The older the equipment, the more patience required and the more patience
required equals more thought and more thought equals stronger ideas and concepts towards image making…

no. 2 folding autographic kodak brownie

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olympus trip 35mm

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holga 120N

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#012 urban series – noose

Saturday, February 12th, 2011

#07 urban series – empty

Monday, February 7th, 2011

#07

Pumeza

Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

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Africa

Friday, January 21st, 2011

On these gravel township streets…

I had’nt planned to get to South Africa this year, however after a relatively quickly arranged trip I find myself back here again, absorbing the country like I have not done before. It’s an amazing place…and life continues to play out on these gravel township streets…

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