2015 Sony World Photography Awards - 2nd Place, Portraiture, Professional Competition
Dougie Wallace is internationally recognised for his long-term social documentary projects and a distinct direct style of expressive street photography. He has won prestigious awards, exhibited as a solo artist or in joint exhibits in world-renowned institutions and photographic festivals, authored a number of books, all critically acclaimed. London-based, his assignments and personal work take him around the world.
Dougie attributes his unique vision to his Glasgow up-bring and experiences lived or perceptively witnessed over two decades of residing in east London, from the uninhibited party days, when the area was a cultural wasteland through to its on-going urban regeneration. Living in Shoreditch has helped him develop an eye for the tragi-comic, messy side of uninhibited human behaviour. Dougie Wallace's Glasgow upbringing has shaped his style, which has been described as 'visually exaggerated' and 'hard-edged'. What motivates his pictures is human behaviour. People’s interactions and emotions fascinate him. His stories are thematic. They have similarities of expressions running through them. Dougie's work is informed by societies’ trends and incongruities and translating what he sees through the lens into wit, criticism and humorous vignettes. Dougie Wallace likes to think that his photos convey a point of view that believable and absurd.
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