Jordan S. Douglas

Jordan Douglas teaches darkroom and digital photography at Vermont’s Saint Michael's College as well as workshops in alternative darkroom techniques and summer camps at Burlington City Arts. Douglas uses both low tech and high optics cameras in creating his varied images—which he has shown throughout Vermont. He is dedicated to the expansive possibilities of analog photography, and much of his work examines process while encompassing themes of family, identity, memory and loss.

“(extra)ordinary,” at Burlington, Vermont’s New New Art Studio, was a co-exhibition of Douglas’ ‘Contact Grids’ of objects from his father’s house + studio, and framed ‘constructions’ by Jennifer Koch. May 5-13, 2023. Seven Days Art Preview

“Of Gavin,” exhibited at Penny Cluse Café in February 2019, was an homage to Douglas’ younger brother, who died unexpectedly in 2017, seen through the filter of his possessions, and printed in lith and liquid emulsion.

“Images of Havana,” at Artspace 106, in Burlington, featured a collection of silver gelatin lith prints of images taken in Cuba in January 2015.

"The Fingerprint Series" was exhibited at Burlington's Metro Gallery, June & July 2014 as part of a 3-person show entitled “Impressions,” and then as a solo show at Champlain College’s President’s Suite in November & December 2014. Large silver gelatin images of fingerprints were produced entirely through photographic chemical process. Seven Days Art Review

Douglas’ exhibition “(Re)membering,” of March of 2012, involved transforming collected anonymous vintage photographs into hand-made, one of a kind, sepia-toned silver gelatin prints on cotton watercolor paper. Antique photographs were re-interpreted and re-contextualized.

In his exhibition “Silver Halides: New Photographs” at Vermont’s Gallery 215 College, in April of 2009, Jordan Douglas presented large-scale triptychs of images from contiguous strips of negatives. The connections over three neighboring photographs were originally unintended and spoke both to the fixed chronology of film photography and to the interactivity of disparate images. Seven Days Art Review

An example of Jordan Douglas’ lith photography was published in Tim Rudman’s compendium, The World of Lith Printing (Aurum Press, 2006): World of Lith Printing.com

A watch a video discussion of the Fingerprint Series + interview by Vermont photographer and videographer Natalie Stultz, click on the image below: