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 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 among others.
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 showed his debut solo exhibition in the capital with an updated and now all monochrome portfolio of his work from Speakers Corner. Following a successful summer working on a month long exhibition that contained a completely new portfolio of colour works and two group shows, he is currently working on a number of new projects for 2011 and beyond. These include a portfolio of monochrome prints of the British seaside, his first portfolio of portraits and the opportunity to curate a photography festival with the Brockley Max arts festival, alongside new exhibitions and art fairs. He is also taking on the ambitious task of producing an image-a-day portfolio throughout 2011 at the photo blog BlipFoto
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, discovering new music and making up playlists on Spotify 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 and maybe one day own his own gallery or at the very least a small beach hut on the south coast See 6.00 for the full effect…