Fine art landscape, and digital art photographer based in Brisbane, Australia .

John Doody is a photographic artist living in Brisbane, Australia. From a very early age John was introduced to and educated in the techniques of photography by his father, a keen amateur photographer. The love of photography has endured throughout his life. In the 1980’s John focused on black and white film photography and the processing of images in the darkroom. Since that time digital colour photography has improved to such an extent that it is now his preferred medium. The possibilities with digital postprocessing allow for an enormous range in artistic expression. 

John’s photographic interests cover a wide range of subjects but in the main they are centred around two main themes. One of these themes is conventional landscape photography and the second is digital art that is derived from this landscape photography. In presenting a landscape image John aims is to give the viewer the feeling that they could step into the scene and thus experience the sense of what it was like to be at that place at that time. In John’s digital art the aim is to more acutely focus the message that the landscape carries. The digital art sometimes uses sophisticated post-processing skills and techniques to allow the image to speak its message. Themes of our connection to the land and our effect on the land are important in John’s work, especially the effects of climate change.

John’s influences are many and varied. They range from the family connection to photography through his great-grandfather Christopher Roggenkamp, who migrated from Germany in 1863 and set up a photographic business in Warwick, in rural Queensland, down to his late father, to the great monochrome photographers of the twentieth century such as Ansel Adams, Brett Weston and Henri Cartier Bresson; to modern day photographers and digital artists including John Paul Caponigro and Australian landscape photographers Peter Dombrovskis, Peter Eastway, Christian Fletcher, and Murray Fredricks.

John is heavily involved in Queensland’s photographic community. He is a registered photography judge with the Queensland Photographic Society and is regularly invited to judge Australian and international photographic competitions. His background as a physicist has meant the John is in high demand to give presentations on the science behind the art of photography and has lectured on subjects as diverse as “The Art of Photography, Astrophotography, printing techniques and colour management. He is an internationally awarded photographer, a member of the Australian Photographic Society through which he has attained his AAPS and his AFIAP (Artiste FIAP) through the FEDERATION INTERNATIONAL DE L’ART PHOROGRAPHIQUE. He has most and recently obtained his Bronze level (CAPS/b) in the Conceptual Art Portfolio Awards through the Australian Photographic Society. John is also involved in photography workshops and has run several in and around Brisbane for up to 10 people through the Facebook group IPhotographMagic.

John has staged three exhibitions of his work. The first exhibition “A Legacy of Light – Five Generations of Photographers 1863 – 2012” was initially staged at the Warwick art gallery in 2012 and then various galleries throughout Queensland in 2013 and 2014. This was a family exhibition covering family history as well as the art of photography. The second exhibition of his work in 2021 was entitled "Layers in the Land - An Exploration of the Landscape image from Interpreted Reality to Abstraction". Most recently in April 2022 John has completed his third exhibition "PALYA - Reflections on Landscape and Place". The two most recent exhibitions were held at the Richard Randall Art Studio at the Brisbane Botanical gardens. John intends to continue to expand his repertoire and to refine his digital art skills. Images from the exhibitions can be seen in the portfolios in this website.

John Doody M.App.Sc, Dip.Ed. AAPS, AFIAP, CAPS/b