Jordan Douglas is an art photographer and educator steeped in alternative darkroom process, who has been exhibiting since 1999. Douglas' work encompasses issues of memory, family history, personal identity, and loss. His most recent series, “My Father's Things, Contact Grids” is a assessment of objects once possessed by Jordan's father Stephen Douglas, an accomplished artist who died in 2023. The groupings of things are presented in grids of between 4 and 20 frames, scanned directly from the analog contact sheets. The Contact Grids were shown at Burlington, Vermont's New New Art Studio in May 2023, and at Boston's Panopticon Gallery in the spring of 2024. “(Re)membering” is an ongoing series in which Jordan photographs collected anonymous vintage photographs and reprints them with hand-applied silver gelatin emulsion on watercolor paper, toned in sepia. Forgotten and displaced portraits of the past are reawakened to speak again. The “Fingerprint Series" studies the distinct personal signifiers through enlargements made entirely through chemical process, without a camera nor ink. The Fingerprints were first shown at the Burlington City Arts' Metro Gallery in 2014. Lith printing is one of Douglas' recurring darkroom techniques, used for several bodies of work, such as “Images of Havana” and “Of Gavin”. The unique and variable process yields warm-toned monochrome prints with an explosion of grain in the shadows. Jordan was featured in master photographer Tim Rudman's 2006 compendium, World of Lith Printing.
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