About John Dowler
I�m among other things a web and print designer living on Bowen Island, near Vancouver, BC. I started photography in school in the seventies. I remember my French teacher pounding on the darkroom door, begging me to come to class. But I didn�t have to because of course if I opened the door all my photos would be ruined.
My camera accompanied me through life and around the world. It kind of proved my life. In the meantime I�ve been a musician, goatherd, shop steward, screenwriter, dissident, patient, parent, designer and mugged.
I grew with courses, books, practice and gallery crawls. I�ve worked with computers since the early 80�s, on the web since 95. For me photographs are a wave form of light moving through space, time and media, rather than the printed image per se. Lofty but true.
