Doug Winter (b. 1966, Denver, Colorado) is a photographic artist and filmmaker living with impaired vision, including visual snow syndrome. His work is shaped by witnessing his father’s sudden loss of sight and adapting to his own partial vision loss following a stroke affecting his right eye. He treats the camera as a conceptual mechanism, not a tool of documentation, using it to investigate how vision and memory shift, fracture, and rebuild with each act of remembering. Using experimental processes and direct digital capture without software filtration, Winter physically modifies lenses and sensors and works with degraded film materials, bypassing digital correction to produce images that consider how the photograph can fail as evidence and truth.

In 2023, Winter received a $10,000 Seeding Creativity grant, directly funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. He was selected as a finalist for the Arte Laguna Prize and exhibited at Arsenale Nord, Venice, and has been selected on three occasions by separate Arte Laguna juries for exhibition, including Arte Laguna’s 20th Anniversary exhibition in Shanghai. Through Arte Laguna, he received a fully funded one-month residency at the Hong Museum (Shanghai branch), China. His works are held in the collections of MoCA Cultural Association (Associazione Culturale MoCA, Modern and Contemporary Art), Venice, Italy (2 works), Hong Museum (Shanghai branch), China (4 works), and the National Steinbeck Center, Salinas, California (1 work), as well as private collections internationally. He is currently an artist-in-residence at KALA Art Institute in Berkeley, California, and is a graduate of the Colorado Institute of Art (1987).