Sirius Arts Centre is pleased to have in residence for the month of July American Photographer, Doug Dubois.
Doug received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and Parco Gallery, Tokyo, among other venues, and can be found in the collections of major institutions, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In 2006, he received the John Gutman Photography Fellowship. Doug teaches photography at Syracuse University in New York State.
Doug Dubois arrives in Cobh directly after seeing his first monograph published through Aperture Foundation in the United States. Titled, "All the Days and Nights" the book is an amazing collection of imagery Doug has made of his family for over 20 years, beginning in 1984, prior to his father’s near-fatal fall from a commuter train and his mother’s subsequent breakdown and hospitalizations. The book is filled with beautiful and haunting portraits that give a hint to a narative comprising the lives of his immediate family.
While in Cobh, Doug is running photographic workshops with young adults. This project has been sponsored by Cork County Council. The workshops began just a 2 weeks ago, but already the group are working on the goal of creating their own books by using an online publishing tool. The members of the groups have been drawn from the Cobh YMCA and Feabhas Cobh Diversion Project.
Additionally Doug is making his own images while in the area. To learn more about Doug Dubois please visit his website at www.dougdubois.com
