About Darrell
Darrell was educated in photography at Shrewsbury College Of Art back in the late nineties, before locking himself away in a darkroom for a couple of years to expand his printing skills, which came to fruition when he submitted and then exhibited his work in conjunction with Channel 4’s Year One project.
This was followed by exhibiting work at a number of group exhibitions and awards across the West Midlands, before finally finding a gallery willing to exhibit his debut solo portfolio of twenty-five monochrome images from the streets of London, various demonstrations against (War in Iraq, capitalism etc) defecting Labour MPs and the odd landscape.
He then celebrated winning the award of Oxford Times Photographer Of The Year award with a small portfolio of (hopefully) not so stereotypical images of the university city. Since then he has exhibited his portfolio on Hyde Park’s Speakers Corner and collaborated with the London Chinatown Association, Notting Hill Carnival and Birmingham Artfest.
In Between he has forged a marginally successful career in the retail sector (where he sold his work in one shop and developed a photographic card range for another) and the book industry (where he got to photograph a number of authors and celebrities including a member of Monty Python and a couple of Children’s Laureates).
Inspired by the Reportage photographers of the 1940’s and 50’s including Eve Arnold, George Rodger, Lee Miller, Elliott Erwitt and his personal heroes Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa. He has recently shown his debut solo exhibition in the capital with an updated and now all monochrome portfolio of his work from Speakers Corner. He is currently working on a number of new projects, including a portfolio of Abstract images, inspired by the works of Alexander Rodchenko and Man Ray. Adding new images to his portfolio of work with The Chap magazine, alongside new Exhibitions and Art Fairs.
When he is not wandering the streets camera in hand, he can be found in charity shops getting excited about 
discovering cool vintage vinyl records and obscure Penguin paperbacks with nice arty covers, searching YouTube for various surreal televisual moments and becoming obsessive with tweeting on Twitter. He currently lives in South-East London where he dreams about becoming the new Robert Capa (minus living in Paris, having an affair with Ingrid Bergman or being blown up in Indo-China). Instead, he is happy to make do making (some kinda) living from his photos, meeting the South-East London equivalent of Miss Bergman or maybe Audrey Hepburn and maybe one day owning his own gallery or at the very least a small beach hut on the south coast. See 6.00 in for the full effect…