Dominic Rouse is an Englishman who started his career at the age of 16. He took press photographs for a while in his early years but did not find the job demanding and did not like the fact that there is no imagination involved in that type of photography. He left the press world behind and started working as a commerical and advertising photographer. He found working with art directors difficult because he believes that you can not direct the art - that it directs you. He opened his own gallery with his own work and has found this to the be the most rewarding of all the jobs he has worked.

His influences come from both Romanism and Renaissance painters and from literary minds such as Kafka and Nietzsche. He believed painters from those times in history had a better sense of light than modern day photographers and he strives to take the words from writers, poets and philosophers and turn them into images. He uses a combination of lenses from cameras 25+ years old then scans them into his computer to blend them together. He does not use photoshop, but I could not find what program(s) he uses. Described on the MOCA website, "He describes his art as "attempts to convey anger, heartache, confusion and hatred (that most potent of emotional cocktails) and their antidotes: obsession and desire, the highest forms of which, despite the prison of our existence, somehow manage to prove that what will survive of us is love.""
On the homepage of his website is this quote: " To see the light we must first acknowledge that we are in the dark."