Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Domnic D'souza, the mysterious photographer from Shiolim.

 Goa Gil told me of Dominic D'souza, a photographer from the village of Shiolim  in Goa. Dominic was a good friend of  Gil and Arianne and also shared my interest in photographing the 'Hippy' culture in North Goa, a good two decades or so before I did.
Personally, I had never heard of  Dominic  before this time, nor do I have any knowledge of his current whereabouts.
Gil showed me two of the prints made by Dominic in the eighties.I would assume that Dominic printed his own photographs.These B&W portraits have their backgrounds masked out during the printing process and  are also hand tinted.
Photographs courtesy Goa Gil
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7 comments:

  1. fabiola d'souzaJanuary 17, 2012 at 8:20 AM

    Hi Alex,
    I am domnic's son in law. domnic passed away a few years back. His wife Bella and Son Joseph live in Vaddy afframent Siolim. Nice to see someone appreciating the photos that Domnic used to do for his hippy friends. You can contact me on 9881064965.
    Bye hope to meet you and some of his hippie friends
    Gregory

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  2. CarlosFebruary 25, 2012 at 4:18 PM

    Being a photographer, I loved Domnic. He was a quiet and old time gentle soul. Used a simple point and shoot film camera...maybe Canon. He made his own chemicals by grinding the rocks and creating the chemistry. I was a witness to this as he once shared his workflow with me at his home. He also used an very old enlarger from the 1930's. Very talented man...he photographed many of the winter western residents of Goa. He had a great sense of capturing the essence of sub culture that appeared in Oct Nov and stayed to March or April.
    I am very sorry to see he passed away. Somewhere in my storage I have a medium format negative of his wife and him outside their home in Siolim.

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    1. Davina D'souzaJanuary 12, 2016 at 10:36 AM

      Hi Carlos

      Im glad that you knew my Grandad Dominic D'souza, i am his granddaughter. I would like to speak to you and see if you have any of my granddads work or like you mentioned his format negatives of himself and my grandma please.. Do contact me via email on davina.dsouza34@gmail.com

      I do hope to hear from you , Thanks
      Davina D'souza

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 7, 2016 at 9:53 AM

    Hiya,

    I am JP from France and still have 2 beautiful photos hand tinted taken for me by Dominic during the 1975/1976 season in Goa. One where I am in front of my tepee (made of coconut tree leaves)and one with a group of French friends.

    The photos are still in excellent quality like they have been taken yesterday lol

    If I remember well I think Dominic was using a Yashika camera. Maybe a 635. Anyway for sure it was one of this type.
    http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Yashica_6%C3%976_TLR_%28knob_advance%29#Yashica-635



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  4. UnknownAugust 25, 2016 at 5:16 AM

    Hi JP ,

    Hope all is well. It would be great if i would be bale to have a look at them if possible? what is your contact details ?

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  5. anthea dsouzaFebruary 4, 2020 at 9:03 AM

    Hi everyone, please could you contact me if anybody has any information/stories/photos about my granddad. I would love to see more work done by him...
    please do not hesitate to contact me on ; antheadsouza@outlook.com

    thank you very much!

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  6. AndersMay 12, 2020 at 4:53 AM

    Here, you find the most represantative album of Domininck's pictures. http://goabeatz.com/Dominick

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