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Dry Line on the Horizon

DMB — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:32:37 +0000

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

DMB — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 06:26:05 +0000

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

DMB — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:37:35 +0000

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*

_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

DMB — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:23:29 +0000

The Dispatcher - Ryan David Jahn

Grafitti Cat

DMB — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 08:19:18 +0000

Latest Published Work

DMB — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 07:19:32 +0000

Fog on the Tyne – Book Cover

DMB — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:04:48 +0000

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

DMB — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:56:54 +0000

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

HARTSLAG

The Pinnacles, Nambung National Park, Western Australia

DMB — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:20:31 +0000

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

DMB — Wed, 25 May 2011 12:25:43 +0000

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