Doug Nason, February 2007

Douglas Nason is an anthropologist, photographer and writer interested in art and culture. He is the author of SHAG LTD. Fine Art Limited Editions (2005), Night of the Tiki: The Art of Shag, Schmaltz and Selected Primitive Oceanic Carvings (2001), and co-author of Copro/Nason Fine Art, A Catalogue Raisonné (2006), The Art of Von Dutch (2006) and Rat Fink: The Art of Ed “Big Daddy” Roth (2003). His photography and writing have appeared in magazines and publications such as Islands, Juxtapoz, Barracuda, Los Angeles, LA Weekly, World Explorer, International Tattoo Art and H2O. His photos have also been exhibited at J. Moore Gallery in Seal Beach, California, and won Grand Prize in Islands magazine 2006 photo competition. Nason is co-owner of Copro/Nason Gallery in Santa Monica and has curated many groundbreaking art exhibitions.
Although Nason has a preference for black and white photojournalistic and landscape photography, this unique exhibition debuts his color portraiture. These images were taken by Nason while conducting ethnographic and archeological research in Nusa Tenggara (Eastern Indonesia), Papua New Guinea, Madagascar and other Oceanic locals. All 17 photos were shot using hand-held 35 millimeter film cameras with Canon EF series lenses, and mostly Kodak Portra ISO 160 and 400VC color negative film.

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These uncropped full-frame photographs were meticulously hand-printed on metallic paper by Hamid Afrasiabi with Custom Image in Los Angeles before being masterfully framed by J. Fieldson Custom Framing in Huntington Beach.