Author: John Donges

John Donges is a Philadelphia-based artist who studied science and art in college. John is the in-house photographer for the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. When not shooting animal surgeries, he enjoys Philadelphia and people as subject matter. John also performs on stage with the Dumpsta Players and is serving on the board of DP Arts Consortium. He has been shooting for Quince Productions for eight years, having photographed over 30 of Quince’s shows.
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Photographing Quince Productions’ YOU KNOW MY NAME: A DANIEL TALBOTT TRIO

John Donges August 14, 2014 1 Comment

In shooting YOU KNOW MY NAME: A DANIEL TALBOTT TRIO, I wanted to capture not only the unique world in which Talbott’s plays occur, but the very different worlds of these three short plays. A kitchen (Break My Face on Your Hand), a public bench (You Know My Name), and a bedroom (What Happened When) become joyous, sinister, hopeful, despairing, or reassuring places as the plays move along and flow into one another.

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John Donges Photographs THREE DAYS OF RAIN (Quince): A Double Assignment

John Donges April 6, 2014 No Comments

In shooting Richard Greenberg’s THREE DAYS OF RAIN, my first photographic challenge was to capture the unique structure of the play: the first act is set in 1995 and involves a brother/sister and their old friend – the son of their father’s architecture partner and oldest friend. In Act II, the three actors play the parents of their Act I characters. So it was a dual challenge to photograph basically two casts instead of one, and to try and paint a visual portrait of what is both similar and different between each character and his/her parent, and to portray the look of two very different decades.

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