Self Portrait by Dom Ducote

 

Dom Ducote

I’m 26, born and raised in Utah. I’ve been a photographic artist for roughly 11 years. I’m self-taught. I started shooting as a form of therapy, and I can say with certainty that I would not be here today without photography. From the time I was a teenager, every evening I would grab one of my cameras and photograph the streets of St. George, and every weekend I would go photograph the desert. I used photography to distract myself from suicidal ideation, to reshape the way I saw the world and to reaffirm my place in it. Along with other therapeutic tactics and personal revelations, the camera showed me that there is beauty to be seen and felt all around us, all the time, if you know how to see it and how to allow yourself to feel it. This is a view I’ve held for almost the entirety of my career as an artist. It’s pushed me to photograph every subject imaginable, and to settle for nothing less than perfection, regardless of what the subject in front of my lens may be. I approach a product shoot with the same level of skill and respect that I do for conceptual portraiture, or intimate landscape, because I believe a photographic artists core responsibility is to appreciate and understand beauty in all its forms, not just to capture it. Understanding why a picture deserves to be taken is equally as important as understanding how to take it.

Achievements and publications

  • Senior Photographer at Walker Edison 2021 - 2025

  • Hollow featured in Love Letters, a show curated by Roni James - 2025

  • Worked as Lighting Director for Bad Son Winter 2024 Drop and Q4 2025 Drop

  • Interview with SLUG Magazine in November 2024

  • A Look of Disapproval featured in One Shot to Rule Them All - 2024 (rewarded honorable mention from 2 judges)

  • The Essence of Grandma featured in grand opening of The Gala, October 2024.

  • Chroma, a solo exhibition, debuted at Essential Photo Supply, September 2024.

  • Lavender Haze featured in One Shot to Rule Them All - 2023

  • Self published two photography books, Clarity & Fog (2019), and Scofield (2020).

  • Work featured in multiple collaborative photographic projects curated by Andrew McClees

  • Work featured in Whalebone Magazine’s Photography Issue (2022)

  • Photograph for Walker Edison in USA Today article.