"Dominic Rouse would be the first to admit that his use of the camera and the darkroom are unusual. Photography, as a wide and varied community of folks, is a very big tent indeed and his corner of photography has few fellow travellers. Contemporarily Jerry Uelsmann comes to mind. But when I think of his work, I think more of the painters Breugel, Hieronymus Bosch and René Magritte. Rouse does not photograph the world, he makes photographs of his mind. Looking at his images is a profoundly different experience than looking at, say, an Ansel Adams photograph.
With Adams one prepares for his photographs by reading John Muir, with Rouse one prepares by reading Lewis Carroll or even Freud.
His images are challenging because the questions he asks in his images are challenging themselves."

(From Brook Jensen's introduction to 'Haunted by a Painter's Ghost' DVD)