Winner The Gallery Prize at the 2008 Foto8 summer open.
Two images selected for photo-month photo-open on the 29th Oct 08.
Three pictures selected for the AOP open 2008. Went on to show at the best of the AOP awards
2009
Selected for the Foto8 summer show 2009.
Selected for the photomonth photo-open 2009.
Selected for creative review photography edition Oct 2009.
Four corners group show Dec 2009.
2010
Commendation in the portraiture competition, series of six images, London Photographic Association 2010.
2010 - Current
Two images selected for the summer show, foto8, 2010. Showing till Oct 2010.
AOP open Aug 2010 two images selected. Showing till Sept 2010
Four corners My East End comp 2010.
showing at the Four Corners My East End comp until Sept 2010
Coming up... Solo show at the Outside World gallery, Redchurch St, Shoreditch, London Nov 2010
Background
London-based photographer Dougie Wallace grew up in Glasgow and served for four years as a soldier with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He has lived in east London for 11 years. Having travelled extensively with the Army, his wanderlust continued, and it was during one trekking expedition in Nepal that he first picked up a camera.“Right away I felt I was on to something,” he recalls. “And so when I returned I enrolled on a photojournalism course.”
Travel & Urban Photography
His projects mix traditional social documentary photography from his travels with street photography that captures, as he says, “the often ironic, oblique single human moment” in contemporary urban life. “I mostly shoot with wide-angle and get in close. I’m a participant not a voyeur. Most of my travel shots come about from actually becoming part of whatever scene is going on in that location. I’ve never been one for the shy, invisible blending-in-with-the-crowd approach. I prefer to be open and direct, often with a flash, which I find creates theatre and drama, heightened reality. You see that in the Shoreditch bar/art scene pictures – where actually being in there partying adds a more diarist and autobiographical dimension. But it’s as true with my beach and water shots. I’ll swim up to people and capture them – sometimes at one with nature, sometimes out of their depth. But always stripped of the mask they wear in their everyday life.”.
Reflections on Life
His recent series of images 'REFLECTIONS ON LIFE', see’s him attempt to capture the mundane in everyday tram journeys of city dwellers through the reflected, in the case of Alexandria, decaying grandure of the city's architecture. This has created more painterly and at times surreal images. All of the compositions are a play on light and shadow, merging and projecting the colours and architecture onto the faces of its travelling inhabitants. Juxtaposed and fractured in this way the effect of these different layers of reflections produces a disorientating series of images that captures the spirit of the place and shapes an atmosphere in some cases a narrative of the people who live their lives there.