Cody Lee Dopps, of our land : North Gallery, July 2-September 2, 2012.

              Cody Lee Dopps North Gallery July 2 - September 2, 2012
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Cody Lee Dopps
Of Our Land
North Gallery - July 2 - September 2, 2012
Before living in Oklahoma, photographer Cody Lee Dopps
grew up in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in
Colorado. Some of his earliest memories are of ski-school
on the slopes of Mount Crested Butte, which led to a love
of the great outdoors and a passion for the environment.
In 2005, Dopps moved to rural Oklahoma to work with his
father on the restoration of a 100-year-old historic
homestead that was settled before Oklahoma's statehood.
It was during his daily commute to work on a 20-mile
stretch of dirt roads as he passed the outstretched plains
that Dopps' real passion for photography emerged. The
vast openness of northwestern Oklahoma with its desolate
sights and abandoned towns became a theme in his work
that carries on to this day.
Dopps says, "While traveling around the
country roads of Oklahoma, I would get an
overwhelming sense of time and of the
vastness of the Great Plains every time I
would come across one of the thousands of
empty and dilapidated homes that are
tucked away across Oklahoma's landscape."
Dopps says his photography is a culmination
of a love for landscapes and a love for not
only these old houses, but also the
memories they once held. "At times I will
also photograph a new structure in the same
manner to set against these old houses as either a foreshadowing of things to come or a
reminder of what we could lose if we are not careful," says the artist.
When explaining his process for capturing images, Dopps
says, "I rarely, if ever, set out to create a certain image. I
learned long ago that when I have a specific image in my
mind I become endlessly frustrated trying to make that
specific image a reality. Instead, I found that the process
is much more rewarding to simply be in the present
moment and open to the situation at hand - to
photograph the land as I see it before me."
"I have a mental stockpile of locations that might make
future photographs," says Dopps. "And, there are certain
locations that I've driven past for years just knowing that
there is a photograph to be made out there somewhere.
So when the time is right, the sun is in the right place,
and the clouds are pretty, I just hope that I have my
camera with me."
Since 2005, Dopps has worked professionally for a handful
of magazines and photography studios around Oklahoma. His photography has been
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