Todd R Darling
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Todd R. Darling is an American documentary photographer based in Hong Kong, where he began his career photographing the Umbrella Movement for Polaris Images in 2014. He studied Documentary Practice...
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Photographers Todd R. Darling, LaToya Ruby Frazier, and Helen M. Stummer
idyll wins Silver in Book/Documentary Prix de la Photographie, Paris
Inspired by the work of the poet and doctor William Carlos Willams, these photographs of America’s first industrial city were taken in Paterson, New Jersey. By capturing the parades, house fires, political rallies, decaying landscapes, and the everyday lives of the city’s people, a lyrical interrogation of the American dream unfolds. The work explores the reality and myth of America through the story of a small, struggling city.
Idyll featured on cover of British Journal of Photography
Idyll featured in Musee Magazine
Todd R. Darling’s American Idyll explores the concept (or arguably, the fallacy) of the American dream, as witnessed through the experiences of the country’s first industrial city community.
AI-AP: American Photography 34 Winner
KOLGA TBILISI PHOTO: Documentary
Inspired by the work of the poet and doctor William Carlos Willams, these photographs of America’s first industrial city were taken in Paterson, New Jersey. By capturing the parades, house fires, pol...
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Todd R. Darling is an American documentary photographer based in Hong Kong for sixteen years, where he began his career photographing the Umbrella Movement for Polaris Images in 2014. He studied Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism at the International Centre of Photography and the Eddie Adams workshop XXX in 2017. Todd recently completed work on a documentary project that began in 2016, about Paterson NJ. The project, inspired by local poets William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg, is a lyrical interrogation of the American dream told through the singular experience of America’s first industrial city and its people. He’s currently studying at the Savannah College of Arts and Design.
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