Jordan S. Douglas

A narrated slideshow of the images used for “Artistic Inheritance, Father & Son”, which was presented live at PechaKucha Night in Burlington, Vermont on June 13, 2024.

2024 Panopticon Gallery Interview

Jordan Douglas uses both low tech and high optics cameras in creating his varied images, which he has shown throughout Vermont and New England. He is dedicated to the expansive possibilities of analog photography, and much of his work examines process while encompassing themes of family, identity, memory and loss. Douglas teaches darkroom and digital photography at Vermont’s Saint Michael's College as well as workshops in alternative darkroom techniques and summer camps at Burlington City Arts.

“Holding: Mementos Kept, Memories Kindled,” at Vermont’s Art at the Kent. Douglas’ 17 framed prints include large darkroom prints and contact grids from film rolls of “My Father’s Things,” along with selections from the (Re)membering series within the dynamic 22-artist exhibition. September 12-October 12, 2025. Seven Days Art Review

“(extra)ordinary,” at Burlington, Vermont’s New New Art Studio, was a co-exhibition of Douglas’ ‘Contact Grids’ of objects from his father’s house + studio, and framed ‘constructions’ by Jennifer Koch. May 5-13, 2023. Seven Days Art Preview

“Of Gavin,” exhibited at Penny Cluse Café in February 2019, was an homage to Douglas’ younger brother, who died unexpectedly in 2017, through a study of his possessions, and printed in lith and hand applied silver emulsion.

“Images of Havana,” at Artspace 106, in Burlington, featured a collection of silver gelatin lith prints of images taken in Cuba in January 2015. “Images of Havana” was exhibited at the Patrick Leahy International Airport and the University of Vermont Medical Center in 2024.

"The Fingerprint Series" at Burlington, Vermont's Metro Gallery, June & July 2014, was part of a 3-person show entitled “Impressions,” and then exhibited at Champlain College’s President’s Suite in November & December 2014. Large silver gelatin images of fingerprints were produced entirely through photographic chemical process. Seven Days Art Review

Douglas’ exhibition “(Re)membering,” of March of 2012, re-contextualized collected anonymous vintage photographs into hand-made, one of a kind, sepia-toned silver gelatin prints on cotton watercolor paper.

In his exhibition “Silver Halides: New Photographs” at Vermont’s Gallery 215 College, in April of 2009, Jordan Douglas presented large-scale triptychs of images from contiguous strips of negatives. Seven Days Art Review

An example of Jordan Douglas’ lith photography was published in Tim Rudman’s compendium, The World of Lith Printing (Aurum Press, 2006): World of Lith Printing.com

A watch a video discussion of the Fingerprint Series + interview by Vermont photographer and videographer Natalie Stultz, click on the image below: