Douglas Despres: The Official Bio!
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“Doug’s photographs are perhaps best known for their stark black and white, snapshot aesthetic, and his fine-tuned sentiment for light.”
Meet Douglas Despres, international award winning American photographer based in Cambria, CA.
Hoo Yah! Douglas Despres first emerged nine years ago as the staff photographer for The University of South Florida’s award-winning daily paper, The Oracle. What sets Doug apart is his quirky, humorous approach to photography, and to life. He holds a Bachelor of Studio Arts Degree from USF, is an international award winning member of the Wedding Photojournalist Association (WPJA), an award winning fine art photographer, and serves as a special correspondent to The Cambrian newspaper.
Exhibitions of Doug’s photographs include Amnesty International’s ‘Wake Up World!’, the ‘National Summit on Cuba’ featuring Mikhail Gorbachev, and ‘One Community, One Book’ featuring Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Nilo Cruz.
The bright take off into wedding photojournalism began eight years ago. Doug’s photographs are perhaps best known for their stark black and white, snapshot aesthetic, and his fine-tuned sentiment for light. He presses forward into the field with a certain joie de vivre, and seeks out peoples who make the ground of reality a wavering mirage.
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