Douglas Dubler is a fashion, beauty and fine art photographer who seamlessly joins craft and creativity to produce some of the most memorable images in editorial, advertising and fine art photography.

His early training in Fine and Liberal Arts at Boston University enriched him with an articulate sense of form, color, and composition.

His early experience as a plastic sculptor and silk screen artist instilled in him a great respect for the craft and workmanship necessary to produce fine art and produced the dedication to detail that appears in his work as a photographer.

Dubler's early mentors, the famed Japanese sculptor Isamu Noguchi and the renowned American photographer Ansel Adams, reflected his appreciation for the duality of the creative process. From his work with Noguchi, Dubler received the Silver Seagull Award from Oriental Photo in Japan.

Dubler=s professional photographic career began in the late 60's in California and the Virgin Islands where he photographed underwater life. Clients included the United States Navy, General Electric, and various institutes involved in marine biology research.

Seeking dry ground, Dubler made the transition to studio photography in the early 70's. He established studios in St. Thomas/U.S. Virgin Islands, San Juan/Puerto Rico and Caracas/Venezuela where he worked for Kodak, Coca-Cola, Rolex, Proctor & Gamble, BMW, Eastern Airlines, Waterford, Johnson & Johnson, and Hasselblad.


In 1976 his commercial success drew him to Los Angeles where he began to specialize in fashion and beauty photography. Working primarily with major motion picture studios, Dubler photographed celebrities and subsequently obtained cosmetic contracts with Max Factor and Redken Laboratories.

Dubler's comprehensive understanding of his client's business evolved the photographer relationship into an informal, symbiotic consulting arrangement with Redken's advertising management. Dubler served as a principal contributor in the company's creative reorganization which catapulted Redken toward commercial success.

Access to European editorial markets and major cosmetic accounts lured Dubler to New York in 1982. His editorial assignments brought him primarily to Italy where he spent extensive amounts of time working for Amica, Lei, and Italian Vogue. His celebrity editorial clients include Jacqueline Bisset, Jane Fonda, Shirley MacLaine, Dolly Parton, Brooke Shields, Andie MacDowell and Sharon Stone.

Dubler=s innovative techniques and his consistent ability to reproduce accurate, pleasing skin tones with minimal retouching has produced a client list of major cosmetic companies including Coty, Max Factor, Revlon, Redken, Avon, Charles of the Ritz, Sally Hansen, and Clairol. His commercial successes have been recognized by the industry with awards from the Starch Report, Communication Arts, Art Directors Club and Clio.


In 1994, Dubler completed a six country tour in the Far East for Fuji Photo Film where he lectured to professional photographers on commerical fashion photography. His lecturing continues at the International Center of Photography in New York City where he is on staff, as well as Rochester Institute of Technology and other educational venues in the United States . Works in progress include a book of natural light, exotic photographs from Bali, a retrospective of twenty years in the fashion and beauty business. Dubler also has active consulting relationships with Epson, Hasselblad, Mamiya, Minolta, Sekonic, Nikon, Olympus, Leaf America, Fuji, Kodak, Balcar, Dyna-lite, Comet and Sinar-Bron. Recent speaking engagements have been as a spokesperson for Olympus on Fox Channel 5 news, guest lecturer for Nikon at The Disney Institute, color temperature seminar sponsored by Fuji at Photo East in New York, a five city fashion tour/seminar (New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston) for Balcar scheduled for the new millenium.

Most recently, Douglas has completed several imaging projects for clients for their websites. His in depth understanding of light, exposure and film have provided him with the tools to develop a ultra-high quality approach to photography for the Internet. To facilitate this he has entered into a consulting relationship with Leaf America(Mamiya) who is providing him with the technical support to develope creative and innovative approaches to digital imaging assignments. LVMH (Moet,Hennessy,Louis Vuitton) has hired Douglas to produce images for their luxury website, e-luxury.com. Some of the designers involved in the site are Michael Kors, Ferragamo, Louis Vuitton, Bulgari, Fendi, and LeClerc Cosmetics.The project is an ongoing one which will provide Douglas with an opportunity to showcase his talents over a wide range of creative challenges. The site launched in June 2000.

In 2001, Dubler was invited to join the Epson Pro Users Group by Epson America. This is a small group of photographers at the top of their respective fields who are involved in digital print making and represent to Epson the cutting edge of technology and art. Olympus America has also formed a similar professional users group, CamediaMasters, of which Douglas was invited to become a founding member.