Douglas R. Winn Photography & Imaging
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ARTIST'S STATEMENT
As a child, this inner excitement made me want to be in this kind of environment all of the time. I loved to study drawings and photographs of flowering plants, trees, mountains and buildings. And I most loved it when they were all integrated into an expressive whole. Romantic landscape paintings or hard engineering diagrams or drafted documents all captured my imagination. My inner desire was to be able to create these designs myself, and to build them, and make them real and enjoyable. In the third grade of elementary school I learned who it was that created these designs in the built environment. It was the “architect”. It was then that I set my goal to become an “architect”.
Not long after that I learned who it was that created the designs in the natural environment, and I set about to be a follower of His as well.
Then, observing how mankind mixed within the built environment and the natural environment, my interests expanded to the cultural environment—I spent hours and hours paging through old National Geographic magazines to observe the many diverse cultures of our world and have always been intrigued by the similarities and differences in all of us, and how well things go when we work together and how poorly they go when we remove ourselves form the community.
So, the Natural, Built and Cultural Environments have been of immense interest to me, and integrating a thoughtful and successful interface between them has been a true adventure in my life. And I did become an architect, graduating from the University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts in 1970. I added an MBA from the Graduate School of Management and Business at the U of O in 1972. My professional registration as an Architect in
My career has not been that of a traditional architect, but has been one where I have excelled at bringing building designers, building users and building constructors onto integrated teams so that their joint success is better assured than if they remained to work in traditional roles that divide these stake holders into opposing entities.
My love of design, proportion, color, function and construction simply has grown through these experiences. My professional life has allowed me the opportunity to collaborate with world renound architects like Norman Pfeiffer, Antoine Predock, Robert Hull, Frank Gehry and Rem Koolhaus, and organizations like the City of
Working in close collaboration with these kinds of amazingly creative organizations I have been able to lead the construction of world class projects like the Hult Center for the Performing Arts, many Intel microelectronic wafer fabs, the Experience Music Project and Sci-Fi Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, and the New Seattle Central Library.
Imaging and photography have been a key part of this process for me, and in the past decade I have actively advanced my work in photography. It has allowed me to actively enjoy the design, composition, color, function and construction that has so enriched me from my earliest youth.
I have now retired from daily design and construction endeavors and am now placing a strong emphasis on producing fine art photographic images on a regular basis. I am providing these fine art products for sale in my studio gallery and on this web site. It is my hope that you will be touched by the power of the natural, built and cultural environments as interpreted through my camera lens. |
From my earliest years, the parts of life that have caught my attention most have been those that emphasized wonderful design, proportion, color, function and construction.
