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Dry Cleaners
Douglas Hill
USA

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"Dry Cleaners"
Dry Cleaners, Wilson Ave, Glendale

Douglas Hill is a visual artist who was born in London, England. At the age of five he moved with his Canadian parents to New York where he lived until coming to Los Angeles in 1968 where he lives to this day. He attained U.S. citizenship in 1990. Hill began making photographs in 1969. His work has been shown at The Gilb Museum, Arcadia, CA; Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS; PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary; Berlin Blue Gallery, Berlin, Germany; G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica; The International Center for Photography, New York; Kunsthaus, Zurich; Friends of Photography, Carmel; Kunstgewerbemuseum, Zurich; Prairie State College, Chicago; The Photography Place, Philadelphia, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica; The Huntington, San Marino and in publications: Frames Magazine, Volume 15; This Side of Paradise: Body & Landscape in Los Angeles Photography; Looking at Los Angeles; American Photo; Camera; 24 Hours in the Life of Los Angeles; The New Color. Hill’s work is included in the collections of the Getty Museum, the Huntington, the Library of Congress, Center for Creative Photography, Center for Motion Picture Studies, Amon Carter Museum and he participated in The Los Angeles Documentary Project commemorating the bicentennial of Los Angeles, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Hill was also a Photolucida Critical Mass 200 Finalist in 2023. Hill has taught photography at UCLA Extension since 1995 and has offered independent workshops and master classes since 2010. Hill currently lives with Elayne Sawaya, his wife of 45 years, and their poodle, Niccolo Paganini, in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles.