Photography

An Evening with Photographer John Dugdale

Thursday, May 18
8:00 PM

Twenty years ago, after working as a professional photographer for over a decade, John Dugdale lost his eyesight. Since then, like the first photographers who used water from a stream, light from the sun, and minerals from the earth to assemble their vision, Dugdale learned the process of creating a picture from the template of nature. To his surprise he found that the present could be preserved with the techniques and sensibilities of a more artisanal time.
   Inspired by his heroes of photography, William Henry Fox Talbot, Sir John Herschel, and Julia Margaret Cameron, Dugdale turned his focus to the joy of recording images of friends, family and personal belongings, and the delicate passage of day into evening.
   Dugdale states that "the eyes are merely instruments – the most splendid secrets of vision dwell in the heart and mind." The process has endeared him to a world of sense, quietude, and beauty that he was never able to fully journey through in his previous career as commercial photographer. The result is a body of what he considers timeless photographs.
   Join us an evening of discussion and viewing of the works of John Dugdale.