I know very little about LowerDarnley outside of these images but it is obvious that we see here the work of a highly talented photographer. Like most great art they seem to appear effortless. Compositions are always exact, light is captured in a myriad of guises and I get a sense of someone truly engaged with place … Read more

I know very little about LowerDarnley outside of these images but it is obvious that we see here the work of a highly talented photographer. Like most great art they seem to appear effortless. Compositions are always exact, light is captured in a myriad of guises and I get a sense of someone truly engaged with place and the natural world. Many- perhaps the majority- of these images have a sense of making you look afresh at the world and how photography can reflect it. That is perhaps all that we can reasonably expect from the medium and certainly more than most of us achieve.

Lower Darnley creates magic with a Holga like no one else. His dreamlike photographs have a remarkable ability to reveal the significance in otherwise ordinary objects – in front of his lens, a rock becomes a mysterious symbol, magical light sifts through the trees, a path becomes a gateway into another world, and refl… Read more

Lower Darnley creates magic with a Holga like no one else. His dreamlike photographs have a remarkable ability to reveal the significance in otherwise ordinary objects – in front of his lens, a rock becomes a mysterious symbol, magical light sifts through the trees, a path becomes a gateway into another world, and reflections disclose meaning in their depths. Lower Darnley’s images are a constant inspiration.