Bio

Alongside his accomplishments in music, Doran Bastin has won awards for his photography, a creative medium he picked up later in life. Known best for his striking and cinematic black and white photography, Doran’s work captures the film noir of everyday life with a 21st century compassion and the soul of a musician.

His recent work has been awarded first place in the 13th Annual National Photography Exhibition at FotoFoto Gallery in NY, Jurors Merit Award in the “International All About Photo 2017 Awards, featured in Photographic Center Northwest's Long Shot exhibition, “Daylighted,” and awarded third place in the 2016 Collective Visions Gallery annual exhibition.

 

"All of this photographer’s images are like film stills, pulling me into the mystery of the scenes, making me wonder at the settings, the subjects, the stories. Transporting me, really. Bastin’s photograph with the backlit car driving on a dusky road as night is falling is poetic and moody and both thrilling and frightening, surreal and beautiful, all at once. I responded to a number of the images he submitted, but because of constraints, only accepted two into the exhibition. This one of the car is somehow nostalgic too, making me think of summer nights and the past and having enough time for a slow drive through the back roads. And the lighting, real or staged, is perfect. There’s also something about this scene that reminds me of the film, Double Indemnity…a favorite of mine."

Ann Jastrab - Editor-in-Chief -All About Photo

Doran Bastin’s photography is as beautiful as it is simplistic, often focusing on a single subject framed by the rest of the photo—a pigeon flies at the end of an alley, or a car disappears into the valley between two shadowy hills. The result of this is that we are able to focus entirely on what Bastin wants us to look at, free from distraction.

When Bastin does share a photograph teaming with action, that contrast catches the eye, like the scenes of protest with a multitude of faces frozen in consternation, fingers pointing and eyes flashing. Bastin is a master at picking out the very best around him and bringing it to us in a powerful photograph.

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