John Dugdale

Since then Dugdale has worked with large format cameras, creating cyanotype prints – platinum prints – using the albumen process which became the predominant technique for positive photography from 1855 to the turn of the 20th century. His sensibility for bygone techniques emphasizes the poetics of his work and the transcendence of time and place; seemingly transporting the imagery to a different era. A quote of the nearly blind photographer: • "The mind is the essence of your sight. It's really the mind that sees." Dugdale has exhibited in over 25 solo shows in galleries all over the world. One of the better known solo exhibits was called Lengthening Shadows Before Nightfall (1995). His work has been seen in group shows at the Miami Art Museum, at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield; his photographs are included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Whitney Museum in New York as well as in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The artist has been inducted into the Royal Photographic Society in Bath and he spoke on BBC, NPR, at universities and other public and private events where he continues to discuss 19th century photographic processes as well as his own aesthetic point of view – answering questions pertaining to what it means "to see." • Dugdale continues to skim the beautiful surface of his deeper concerns – spirituality, death, interior decoration – so his ultra refined Neo-Victorian sensibility and exquisite prints can be quite seductive. • — Vince Aletti (1993)