Life can be likened to a movie shown only once to a captive audience of one, a darkened auditorium in which the level of illumination is a decision for the solitary occupant. To see the light we must first acknowledge that we are in the dark.
I am attempting - as much as is humanly possible - to distance myself from all humanity except my own. Religion is the smokescreen that obfuscates the sins of the rich and mankind is the prison in which the inmates have been convinced that really they are free. Our gaolers are troubled by their own shallows - the fears they have of others are the fears they have about themselves cunningly repackaged to increase their legal appeal.
Unless the truth be sinful, it should not be possible to find fault with a man who views the world through a camera's lens though it is equally impossible in any given age to create work which is agreeable to everyone. Art often challenges existing assumptions rather than simply accommodating them; it is beyond good and evil, which are not the antitheses, but degrees of each other. I suspect that evil may not exist at all, at least not in the form in which it is presented to us, though there can be little closer to it than the hypocrisies of men and women who claim goodness for themselves. Morality is a disease peculiar to humans and at its worst human life is not tragic but unmeaning.
Art is not made by men and women who are wise, but by those in search of wisdom and to search at all is wisdom enough. Knowledge of ourselves is the most that we can know.
And saying so to some means nothing; others it leaves nothing to be said.
Dominic Rouse was born in England in 1959.
His career began in photojournalism in 1977 and has progressed through various stages into the world of fine art.
He makes toned silver gelatin prints from digitally composed, plate negatives in short limited editions. This later work has received international recognition and has been published and exhibited across the European community as well as in the Americas, Asia and Australia.
The style of his imagery may appear to be rooted in the past but it relies heavily on a fusion of state-of-the-art digital technologies & traditional photographic processes to produce prints that have been described as "digital antiques"; seamless transitions between the world of contemporary digital art and the timeless qualities of large-format black and white photography.
Selected Exhibitions
2001
Benham Gallery Seattle USA
Sink Gallery Denver USA
Fresh Art Fair London UK
British Art Zurich SWI
2002
Plus One Galleries London UK
Schneider Gallery Chicago USA
Galeria ArteXArte Buenos Aires ARG
Gables Yard Gallery Norfolk UK
Benham Gallery Seattle USA
Neues Rathaus Linz AUT
2003
Center for Photographic Art Carmel USA
Photo San Francisco USA
2004
Honolulu Academy of Arts USA
Fotofest 2004 Houston USA
Limner Gallery New York USA
Foto Arte Brasilia BRA
2005
Gallery 1401 Philadelphia USA
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art USA
2006
Benham Gallery Seattle USA
Peninsula Museum of Art Belmont USA
Micaela Gallery San Francisco USA
Art of Photography San Diego USA
Art of Digital San Diego USA
Center for Photographic Art Carmel USA
2007
Gallery 24 Berlin GER
Artrom Gallery Rome ITA
H Gallery Bangkok THA
Schot Gallery Florida USA
Art Now Miami USA
2008
Photo LA Los Angeles USA
McDermott Gallery Siem Riep CAM
Icebox Gallery Minneapolis USA
Viewpoint Gallery Sacramento USA
Benham Gallery Seattle USA
21c Museum Louisville USA
Pyro Gallery Louisville USA
2009
Farmani Gallery New York USA
Gossip Gallery Bangkok THA
2010
Verve Gallery Santa Fe USA
2011
ArtChowk Gallery Karachi PAK
Glarie Vevais Frankfurt GER
Selected Publications
2001
PhotoArt International #22 01/02/01 UK
Digital PhotoArt #12 01/03/01 UK
Zing Magazine #15 Spring Issue USA
Lenswork #36 01/07/01 USA
2002
British Journal of Photography 16/01/02 UK
British Journal of Photography 13/02/02 UK
British Journal of Photography 17/04/02 UK
Foto Mundo #410 Aug '02 ARG
XII Encentruos Abiertos Catalogue Aug '02 ARG
Gables Yard Gallery Catalogue Aug '02 UK
Buenos AiresHerald Interview 11/08/02 ARG
Canal @ TV Interview 15/08/02 ARG
2004
In Celebration of Light Photographs from the Collection of Cherye R. and James F. Pierce (ISBN 0-937426-62-8) USA
Correio Braziliense Brasilia 19/06/04 BRA
PhotoFest 2004 Exhibitions Catalogue (ISBN 0-9718044-1-9) USA
2005
The Photo Review #27/2 USA
Incredible Eyes (ISBN 0-9674898-5-7) USA
B&W Magazine USA
BW Spider Awards Calendar USA
2006
BW Magazine #45 USA
PHOTO Magazine Bucharest ROM
2007
World's Best BW Photographers USA
Prix de la Photographie Catalogue FRA
Silvershotz Vol 4 Ed.3 AUS
Phot'Art Magazine FRA
After Image Magazine USA
2009
Traversing The Orient THA
Asian Geographic SIN
Direct Art Vol 16 USA
2010
LensWork Special Editions Folio USA
2011
After Capture Magazine USA
Adore Noir Magazine CAN
Cartier Art Magazine #29 FRA
The Friday Times PAK
Herald Tribune Express PAK
2012
Adore Noir Magazine CAN
Galerie Vevais Folios GER
