As a photographic artist,Dodd’s work investigates the poetics of the everyday through the lens ofaffect, exploring the subtle, often overlooked emotional currents that shapeour daily lives. Using photography, Dodd captures fleeting moments, mundanespaces, and intimate gestures to reveal the depth and resonance embedded in theordinary.
Dodd’s practice is rooted in an attunement to atmosphere, memory, and sensation. I am drawn to the ways inwhich light, texture, and composition can evoke complex emotional states,creating images that hover between presence and absence, familiarity andestrangement. By emphasizing stillness, repetition, and traces of human touch, hiswork amplifies the emotional weight of minor details.
Photography, for Dodd, isless about documentation and more about perception. How emotions surfacethrough objects, how time lingers in the material world, and how images can actas conduits for feeling. Through this lens, his work offers a meditation on theephemeral, seeking to slow down perception and invite viewers into a space ofquiet reflection, where the everyday becomes luminous and affectively charged.
As a PhD candidate in fineart photography at the University for the Creative Arts, Dodd’s currentresearch focuses on the weird and the uncanny. His work has previouslyexhibited at the Mall Galleries in London, theHerbert Read gallery in Canterbury, and the Glasgow Gallery of Photography.
Exhibitions
World within Worlds, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, UK. 2023
Art Advent Calendar, Jack House Gallery, Portsmouth, UK. 2022
We Called Yesterday Today, Cupola gallery, Sheffield, UK. 2022
ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, UK. 2022
Oxmarket Open, Oxmarket Contemporary gallery, Chichester, UK. 2022
World within Worlds: In Transition, James Hockey Gallery, Farnham, UK. 2022
What does culture mean to you?, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK. 2022.
Fine Art exhibition, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece. 2021
Post-Industrialism, LoosenArt, Millepiani, Rome, Italy. 2021
Fine Art exhibition, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece. 2020
Silent Cities, LoosenArt, Millepiani, Rome, Italy. 2020
WeBelieve, PortsmouthCreates, Portsmouth, England. 2020
TimeSpecific, 6 Feet, Radion Louweswag 1, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2020
Isolation. Living apart, LoosenArt, Millepiani, Rome, Italy. 2020
Cruthachadh international photography exhibition, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, Scotland. 2019
The Fronteer Open 2019, Chapel Walk Gallery, Sheffield, England. 2019
Fine Art exhibition, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece. 2019
Photographic Exploration Project, Planet Flow, Berlin, Germany. 2019
Turning the Tide, The Explosion Museum, Gosport, England. 2019
Publications
Shutter Hub Yearbook, Online. 2023
Shutter Hub Yearbook, Online. 2022
Shutter Hub Yearbook, Online. 2021
Source Graduate Photography MA Phase, Online. 2021
Photograd, Photography Degree show MA, Online. 2021
The Pictorial List, Feature #138, Online. 2021
The Flux Review, Q & A Interview, Online. 2021
Photograd, Online Gallery. 2021
Caustic Frolic, Vol.5 Issue 4 ⋅Spring, New York University. 2020
Vocalesk Magazine – Vol 1: Street Architecture, Toronto, Canada. 2020
Wotisart Magazine Portfolio #25. 2019
Average Art Magazine, Portfolio #34. 2019
A5 Magazine Portfolio #26. 2019
Education
MA, Photography - University of Portsmouth (Distinction) - 2021
BSc, Web Science, Social Sciences - University of Southampton (2:1) - 2018