Interview with Thouly Dosios

Street Photography Magazine’s “Year of Women” continues, this month with Thouly Dosios as our featured photographer. Thouly has a B.A. in Visual Studies from Harvard University and an M.F.A. in Film Directing from UCLA. In addition, she is a member of the Los Angeles Street Collective. She’s had plenty of opportunities to learn from and work with prominent photographers and with a background like that, you can imagine what a sharp eye she has for capturing special moments on the street. More recently, Thouly was the single image winner of the LACP exhibit “Street Shooting Around the World” but she’d been on our radar even before then, so you can image how delighted we were to have her featured here in the magazine.

Thouly is fun and easy to talk to and her perspective on street photography and what it means might just change how you feel when you head out to shoot. Click on the audio player below to listen in and get to know more about this talented street shooter.

A Selection of Thouly’s Photos

Demonstrations protesting the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, by a police officer, by asphyxiation. Killing happened on Monday, May 25th. Protests erupted all over the country and then the world after a video surfaced showing the officer suffocating Floyd + 3 more officers failing to act. Protests resulted in extensive looting and the use of police force, as well as involvement from the National Guard. Quarantines were implemented in Los Angeles and other cities around the country. I photograph some from the car: May 30, DTLA May 31, Melrose at Fairfax district June 3rd, Silverlake and DTLA June 6th, DTLA

Demonstrations protesting the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, by a police officer, by asphyxiation. Killing happened on Monday, May 25th. Protests erupted all over the country and then the world after a video surfaced showing the officer suffocating Floyd + 3 more officers failing to act. Protests resulted in extensive looting and the use of police force, as well as involvement from the National Guard. Quarantines were implemented in Los Angeles and other cities around the country. I photograph some from the car: May 30, DTLA May 31, Melrose at Fairfax district June 3rd, Silverlake and DTLA June 6th, DTLA

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Thouly Dosios

Thouly Dosios holds a B.A. in Visual Studies from Harvard University. There, she studied photography under Chris Killip and also interned with Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas. She has since continued her studies participating in photography workshops with Mary Ellen Mark, Sam Abell, Julia Dean and Constantine Manos. Thouly has photographed in the streets of Istanbul, Rome, Tokyo, Beijing, New Delhi, Varanasi and Oaxaca, among others. For the last seven years she has focused on documenting daily life in the streets of Los Angeles, and since 2014 has been a member of the Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP). Her work has been showcased in group shows at the Umbrella Arts Gallery in New York, the dnj Gallery and The Perfect Exposure Gallery in Los Angeles, the Praxis Gallery in Minneapolis, the Black Box Gallery in Portland, and the PH21 Gallery in Budapest. Thouly also holds an M.F.A. in Film Directing from UCLA. Her short films have screened in numerous film festivals worldwide receiving distinctions, including a nomination for a Student Academy Award®. She is currently completing the documentary short, The Rituals of Waiting, about the aspirations of women refugees living in refugee camps on the Greek island of Lesvos. Thouly grew up in Athens, Greece, and currently lives in Los Angeles.