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A photography/journalism major at Los Angeles City College, Douglas began his career while he was a student as a production still photographer for Norman Lear Productions, and Trump Films in Hollywood, CA. In 1982 Warner Bros. Studios contracted Douglas to document the original set designs by futurist Syd Mead for Ridley Scott's sci-fi epic Blade Runner. That same year he was booked as the in-house photographer for designer Antonio Giuseppe. Two years later he was the campaign photographer for Jesse Jackson and was also hired by ABC television to cover the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.

Over his 30 year career he has photographed such notables as comediennes George Carlin and Joan Rivers, the First Lady of Theater Helen Hayes, jazz giant Miles Davis, writer Henry Miller, singer Marvin Gaye, supermodels Kim Alexis and Beverly Johnson, Blues legend Bo Diddley, Academy Award winning composers Henri Mancini and Randy Newman, golf legend Arnold Palmer and a host of others.

His list of national advertising clients stretch across every major market from NY to LA: Thompson's Water Seal, John Deere, Reebok, Pepsi-Cola, Pennzoil-Quaker State, Kraft Foods, Mutual of Omaha, Darden Restaurants, and Plawa-feinwerktechnik GmbH & Co.KG in Germany are a few of them.

Douglas is a photographer without a specialty and considers himself a journeyman with a camera. His work effortlessly crosses all photography boundaries from advertising to portraiture to fine art and photo-journalism (the latter of which has garnered him multiple award recognition on the state (California) and national levels). In October 2006 his photograph, Pacifica, received an Award of Merit for the Best of Florida Artists Registry juried exhibition at the CityArts Gallery in Orlando, FL.

In 2004 Douglas was named artist of the month at the Orlando Museum of Art Store Gallery
where he did his first solo exhibition A Brief Retrospective, since leaving L. A. followed up in 2005 by a group exhibition, Minus Color with talented local Orlando artists at the Downtown Orlando Marriott Art Gallery. In July 2006 the CityArts Gallery invited Douglas to participate in their Collectors exhibition and in early 2006 Douglas received yet another invitation to Hamburg, Germany to participate in a dual exhibition with his photographer friend Cali Koehler in the Spring 2007. In November of 2007 Douglas will open a one-man exhibition, Size Does Matter, at the Avalon Gallery in Orlando.

His work is part of the permanent collections of CNL Bank Corporate HQ, Council 101 at the Orlando Museum of Art, Steve Kodsi of Historic Creations, Cassy Turiczek of the Downtown Arts District, Craig Ulster, Dan Bellows, and the Hal Kantor collection.

Originally from the South Bronx, NY, Douglas moved to Orlando from Los Angeles in 1989.

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