John Darwell
John Darwell received a B.A. honors degree from Manchester Polytechnic and recently completed a PhD in photography at the University of Sunderland. To date seven monographs of his work have been published including Legacy: Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (Dewi Lewis Publishing 2001), Dark Days (Dewi Lewis 2007) and Committed to Memory (A twenty five year retrospective, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, 2007). He has exhibited widely both in the UK and internationally including shows in Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands and the United States and his work is included in several key permanent collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford; Maritime Museum, Liverpool; Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle; and Manchester City Art Gallery. Darwell lives in Carlisle where he is a Senior Lecturer in Photography at the University of Cumbria.
For more information on John Darwell’s group show Confined: http://www.look2011.co.uk/whats-on/confined-juergen-chill-edmund-clark-john-darwell-dornith-doherty-ben-graville-david-maisel-and-david-moore/