Doug Dertinger was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. A landscapist, his work focuses on the intimate encounter of the unattended. His most recent work, a corpus of snapshots collectively titled, the diaries,is aimed at questions about the perceiving body, in the phenomenological encounter between viewer and world. Separate bodies of work edited out of the diaries are created in relation to aspects, types of perception (of being the flaneur, for example, in Traveler, or of gazing in Land).
Doug has shown nationally and internationally, and is in the permanent collections of the Princeton University Art Museum and St. Mary’s University Art Gallery, Nova Scotia. He holds a BFA in Fine Arts from Colorado State University and an MFA in Fine and Media Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and has taught at a variety of institutions across the U.S., joining the faculty of Photography at California State University in 2008.