Thereafter he started a successful decade long commercial career working for such clients as Bergdorf Goodman, Martha Stewart, and Ralph Lauren.
In 1993, at age 33, Dugdale became nearly total blind due to a stroke and CMV retinitis, an HIV-related illness.
His sensibility for bygone techniques emphasizes the poetics of his work and the transcendence of time and place; seemingly transporting the imagery to a different era.
A quote of the nearly blind photographer: Dugdale has exhibited in over 25 solo shows in galleries all over the world.
[2] The artist has been inducted into the Royal Photographic Society in Bath and he spoke on BBC, NPR, at universities and other public and private events where he continues to discuss 19th century photographic processes as well as his own aesthetic point of view – answering questions pertaining to what it means “to see."