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about Blaine Dixon

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I am a retired corporate advertising photographer, audiovisual specialist and freelance photojournalist.

I headed west to California in 1966. Attended L. A. City College TV Production and theater history, Columbia School of Broadcasting, photography at the Art Center College of Design, inspired by photojournalist Ken Light in his photojournalism class at the Academy of Art, San Francisco.I worked as photographer and audio visual specialist in the advertising department of The Bank of California in San Francisco. I freelanced for the SF Bay Guardian, including a cover story in 1983 entitled Shooting The Troubles, a photo essay on Northern Ireland I contributed photos to the San Francisco Chronicle.. I have shown my work at the Nanny Goat Hill Gallery and the Eye gallery in San Francisco.

Below are images of my photography of "The Troubles" (The British Military Occupation of the 6 counties in the north of Ireland):
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My style has been documentary in my self assigned projects. I recently self published three books using blurb.com, Polk Gulch based on a photo exhibit I did at Nanny Goat Hill Gallery in 1982, Going home to Little Dixie about my return to Oklahoma in 2003 where I lived for 6 years. It is a photo essay bout the people of Southeastern Oklahoma, ranchers, gas well crews, high school basketball and many other things.Off the Road about a homeless artist.