Dave Dondero is an fine art photographer exploring the narrative of places of reverence and decline. In considering narrow themes, he has returned over and over to places we treasure even as they decay or descend into jeopardy—or perhaps because they are—producing photographic series on subjects as diverse as the imperiled California Oaks, the decaying churches of rural Italy, and old-growth redwood stumps. In aggregate, he is building a monograph about a world sliding out of balance. Dave sees his subjects as color, texture and saturation, preferring the brute force of hyper-realism over the subtly of shape and contrast. Dave was born in Oakland, California, has lived about half his adult life in rural Northern New Mexico and today shares time between Lafayette and Felton, California.
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