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You can view all the different endeavors I have been involved in at www.DouglasBusch.com

After graduating from the University of Illinois in 1973, I moved to California and worked as an assistant to Morley Baer and Al Weber along with assisting Ansel Adams wash prints on Portfolio VI. My work at SuperLarge Photography encompasses an array of subjects, including landscapes, cityscapes, nudes, portraits, and color and is part of the collections at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA.

My imaginative eco-friendly, sustainable architectural work and drought-tolerant landscape designs have allowed me to work with many of my colleagues throughout California through my firm Busch Design Build, Inc. including designing the late Bob Saget’s home and others featured in Los Angeles Times, Robb Report, and Malibu Times. Through EcoTech Design Studio my vision for an eco think-tank, learning and demonstration center known as the EcoPark can be seen here before it was lost in the Woolsey Fire in 2018.

With a dedication to the principles of healthy design and sustainable building I launched pH Living: Healthy Housing Systems, with the goal of providing homes for people who suffer from environmental allergies and chemical sensitivities (MCS). I also developed the first modular, patented self-watering vertical gardening system designed for urban spaces offering an affordable organic herb and vegetable garden that can be used right out of the box called Farm in a Box™.

My philanthropic work includes the No-Strings Foundation, where we provided no-strings-attached grants for photographers providing direct assistance to photographic image makers in an effort to facilitate and enhance their creative opportunities and endeavors.

Earlier this year I publicly announced my legacy project that I have been working on for the past many years. The Genos Center Foundation is a 501(c)(3) registered nonprofit created to develop the Genos Center, a planned multicultural art gallery, non-denominational chapel and reflective gardens focused on eradicating genocides worldwide giving a voice to marginalized communities by raising awareness, promoting healing, and providing new perspectives on past and present issues.

Upon completion we plan to donate the project in-full to an institution, foundation, or city where the exhibition and chapel buildings are located where it can be sited in perpetuity, to maintain evolving exhibitions and offer a public park destination via the gardens.

The mission of the Genos Center is to teach tolerance through the power of art inspiring reflection and allowing visitors to form new ties between their own current understanding of history and emotional subconscious.

Before 1944, the term "genocide" did not exist. Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-Jewish lawyer, crafted this special phrase to portray Nazi policies of deliberate extermination during the Holocaust.