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HIGHLIGHTS OF PHOTOGRAPHY BACKGROUND
PHOTOGRAPHY BACKGROUND
---Digital photographer (1998-present) www.RickDoble.net:
over 2000 digital photographs at web site; photos exhibited in museums
and symposiums world wide (entries refer to photos exhibited unless otherwise mentioned): invited to Capturing the Moving Mind conference, Moscow, Russia (2005); Painting With Light photos featured by Rhizome.org (2003); essay published Life Imitating Art, a newsstand magazine (2002); Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC (2002); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2002); Review of web site, eDigitalPhoto newsstand magazine (2001); Review of animations, The Film-Philosophy Journal of London, England (1999); Omaha Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
(1999); Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia (1999).
Animations shown at Aixois d'Art Contemporain, an arts festival in
France (1999); seven Internet covers on Pif Magazine a major literary
web publication and a contributing photographer;
Over 400 international links (24 countries) to web site: www.RickDoble.net/linkstomysite.htm
Authored 8 articles about digital photography and art on the Internet; reprinted
10+ times internationally.
---Digital Imaging (1985-present): created original system for digitizing
photographs; wrote programs in Basic: image browser/manager, image palette
manager, screen designer, graphics file format convertor. Exhibited at: Orlando
Museum of Art, Orlando, FL (1998); Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, NC
(1995), one man show at Cameron-Black Gallery Beaufort, NC (1994) and Sanskrit
Magazine (1994).
---Exhibiting Photographer (traditional - film based, 1972-1998): 8 one man
shows, many group shows, publications, awards including best in show, best in
category (Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC 1975).
---Director of Durham Restoration or Renewal (1976-1977): (part time), wrote
grant, obtained funding from the NC Humanities Committee for multimedia slide
show about preserving Durham architecture.
---Director, Photography Workshop(1972-1975): founded workshop for teenagers "at
risk" after school.
---Director of the Durham Photographic Archive Project (1977-1980): (part time)
wrote grant for NEA, ran 3 year project; researched, copied and compiled a
permanent archive of historic Durham photographs.
---Photography Reviewer (1973-1981): NC Anvil and The Guide to the Triangle.
---Professional freelance photographer(1975-1993): taught beginning, advanced
and darkroom photography independently, plus courses at Duke University, Durham
Technical Institute; created workshops and directed 12 multimedia instructional
slide shows for area school system; photojournalism assignments for North
Carolina State Government, Duke University, Carolina Wren Press,Durham Chamber
of Commerce, Central Carolina Bank, regional newspapers; book and record album
covers.
RECENT WRITING, REPORTING, PUBLISHING, PUBLICITY
---Weekly Column "Money Wise" for www.myprimetime.com July 2000 - present.
Featured writer (byline,portrait) at Internet site for the Money/Savings
section.
---Editor, publisher, founder Savvy-Discounts Newsletter, since 1994: designed
from scratch; spent six years developing a popular format; (60% of readers read
cover to over according to survey).
---Attained national press attention for newsletter.
Almost 300 media contacts receive newsletter; articles in Woman's Day, ABC's
TheView, Bottom Line/Personal, Mademoiselle, Woman's World, Men's Health.
---National TV & radio interviews:Interviewed several times by Sweepsfeed, a
syndicated television service; reports aired in: San Diego, CA, Detroit, MI, New
Haven, CT, San Francisco, CA, Pittsburgh, PA plus many other stations
nationwide.
30 radio interviews from Florida to New Hampshire, Vancouver, Canada to Arizona.
---Author - book: How to Get the Best Buys: The Bargain Hunter's Guide to Food,
Clothes,
Utilities, Health Care, 1997, published by Globe Communications Corp., Boca
Raton, FL; over 500,000 copies distributed throughout the USA and Canada at
virtually every Wal-Mart, Kmart and supermarket. 2nd book: $avvy Discount$, 1997,
also by Globe Communications.
---Author - regular series of articles: One article each issue, Freebies,
Carpinteria, CA, 1995-1999; Health & Money, Grass Roots Publishing, New York,
NY, 1997-1999; ThriftyTraveler.com newsletter, Clearwater, FL, 2000-present.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
---Creative Writer (1964-present): short stories, poetry, movie scripts, plays,
essays.
---Chairman, board member, Saint Joseph's Historic Foundation (an arts
organization),
Durham, NC, 1977-1983.
---Hobbies: film buff including classic American movies, foreign and cutting
edge modern films;
also classical music, painting, boating.
---Born July 24, 1944, Richard deGaris Doble, Sharon Connecticut, 55 yrs. old,
married, no children.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
---1972-1975: Director, Durham Photography Workshop (see earlier description).
---1975-1993: Professional freelance photographer:(see earlier description).
---1994-present: Editor and publisher, Savvy-Discounts.com Newsletter.
EDUCATION
---Masters in Communications (M.A. - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
1975).
---B.A. in English, Honors in Writing (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
1966).