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Robert Darch is a British artist-photographer based in Devon, England, recognised for his practice that blends documentary, fiction, and personal narratives. His work explores themes such as rural identity, memory, imagined futures, and psychological states, drawing from his own experience to create narratives that help contextualise a personal response to place.
He has exhibited widely and his photographs reside in public and private collections, including the Martin Parr Foundation, RAMM, and the Open Eye Gallery. Robert’s work was included as part of ‘Facing Britain’, a major touring retrospective of the last sixty years of British Documentary Photography.
Author of three successful monographs, The Moor, Vale, and The Island, his work has also been recognised and published widely, including in The Guardian, The British Journal of Photography, The Sunday Times and the Financial Times amongst others.
Robert’s work was also included in Another Country, British Documentary Photography since 1945, by Gerry Badger and published by Thames & Hudson. 'In Another Country', Badger collates some of the most significant British documentary works’ The Sunday Times.
Robert holds a BA hons degree from the renowned Newport Documentary Photography course, as well as an MA and MFA with distinction, in photography from Plymouth University. He teaches with Falmouth University on their online Photography BA hons degree.
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