No Ka Home O Ka Hale Kahiko is a eulogy for vanishing Hawai’i. Most places in Hawai’i, and on O’ahu in particular, have a cost of living equal to or greater than US mainland cities such as LA, SF, or NYC. Yet income levels here remain stagnant; mainly tied to...
Vale is Robert’s new book Robert Darch’s latest work, Vale, presents a distinctly unnerving and disorientating experience. The expectation of a rural idyll is created from the outset; an archetypal English valley landscape pulled from a perfect...
Moving to the American Midwest marked a distinct shift in my artistic practice. It wasn’t a conscious one, but perhaps one that surfaced through a nostalgic longing for what lacks in the glaciated, urban environment of southern Michigan: access to dramatic...
The rural walk is a well-known English cultural practice. Though it may be civil, the act of walking itself is rooted in an ideology from my own cultural background; to walk the land is to know the land, and therefore suggests belonging, entitlement and...
Along an old River (the Nar, Norfolk) This is my favourite place. My first encounters with the river Nar took place long before I ever thought about photographing it, and before I was even aware of the river by name. During my childhood my family would...
