This is the site of DwenStuart the alter ego of d.s.hathaway

Not sure of the exact time when the alter ego morphed into a body of work but it was created for a reason. I needed a place where I could step away from the presumed professional photographer "don't scare your clients away" austere.

I wanted a space where I could with limited boundaries step away from myself and explore in other directions. The more I moved in that direction the more alienated I felt from my small photographic community. I shot "goth" and thought it trite along with the strolls through the cemetery as this was not what I envisioned for my work. I had no real interest in photographing the macabre...but I strayed. My intentions were to photograph the melancholy "in the midnight hour" to coin a phrase. Seeking that visual language that could be represented in my work.

I dug deeper reaching back two decades ago when I would rummage through the used book stores in Baltimore and finding works of photographers at the turn of the century.
As Penn, Newman, Parks and Avedon would shape my mainstream work seeing the "Dance Study" of Baron Adolf de Meyer (1912) , Helmut Newton, Jeanloup Sieff and Jan Saudek (to name a few) would shape Dwen Stuart.

To my wife who I owe everything...without her love and understanding I would not be the photographer I am today.

To my muses and subjects over the years thank you.

I'm still growing and exploring. I am still curious.

Dwen Stuart is an alter ego nothing more nothing less and one day it too shall be cast away but until that time...

i am dwenstuart.....

~cue music~

"When you think that you lost everything
You find out you can always lose a little more
I'm just going down the road feeling bad
Trying to get to heaven before they close the door" - bob dylan

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