An amazing artists deserving to be considered inartistic photography world.
Based in Canada, Darren Holmes is a total artist mixing some kind of digital art to photography and to the essence of capturing women, mostly, but not only, naked, as young nymphs in desolate lands and woods, sleeping or escaping from their own intimate dreams, as dark as nostaligc and romantic.

Here a little gallery of his works, and a list of his past exhibitions and talks.

– all credits: Darren Holmes –

http://www.darrenholmes.com

Exhibitions and talks:

November 2003 Castelo St. Jorges, Lisbon, Portugal, exhibition with other artists
March 2004 Presentation of work and approach to Ottawa Photo Club
April 2004, Solo Exhibition, Ottawa, Canada
November 2004 Elmwood Art Show, Ottawa, Canada
November 2004 Hamburg, Germany
August 2005 exhibition at Le Kata Bar, Paris, France
December 2005 talk about my work at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland
September 2006 Exhibition, one of several artists at Diaporama 2006 in Nantes, France
September 2006 Exhibition at House of F. I. Shalyapin, Moscow, Russia
October 2006 Part of group exhibition sponsored by Photomasterskaya Magazine in St. Petersburg, Russia
May 2007 workshop on my work and exhibition with Anne McAulay (France), sponsored by Photomasterskaya Magazine in Kiev, Ukraine
May 2007 workshop on my work and exhibition with Anne McAulay, sponsored by Photomasterskaya Magazine in Moscow, Russia
May 2008 – Participated in exhibition curated by the Orticola di Lombardia Association at the Museum of Milan in Italy

Publications, online and print

March 2004 – Contributed images to Yashar Ismailoglu’s poetry collection, Siirler (UK)
July 2004 – Front cover image, Slipstream Anthology (USA)
June 2005 – Cover image and interview, Mooncruise Magazine #18 (Web)
July 2005 – Rear cover image, Slipstream Anthology (USA)
August 2005 – Cover image and interview, Elegy Magazine (France)
August 2005 – Front and rear cover image, Frank Fradella’s book Vespertine 1912 (USA)
November 2005 – Featured exhibition for photography magazine Pontos de Vista (web)
December 2005 – Front cover of hardcover poetry collection, Katharina (Germany)
February 2006 – Cover and feature article in February 2006 issue of the Moscow photography magazine Masterskaya Digital Photo
July 2006 – Interview, NOOVO Canal Moda (web)
August 2006 – Front, Rear cover and images for Frank Fradella book ‘Speaking in Tongues’
January 2007 – Front cover of hardcover poetry collection, Exzess (Germany)
May 2007 – Cover art for Anita Amirrezvani’s novel Blood of Flowers, for the following countries: USA, Canada, Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Sweden, France, Turkey, Spain and Norway
July/August 2007 – Essays for Masterskaya Digital Photo, on my work and approach and my time in Kiev and Moscow for the exibitions in May
November 2007 – Guerilla Magazine print article “A Lovely Sense of Dread” (Canada)
November 2007 – Interview in Fotografa.ro online magazine (Romania)
February 2008 – Ottawa Citizen newspaper article “Wanton and Wicked” (Canada)
March 2008 – Profiled in March issue of Serge magazine (web)
June 2008 – Wrote preface for French photographer Alyz’s book “Ces-Jours La”
September 2008 – Cover photo and interview, Essere e Benessere Magazine (Italy)
October 2008 – Cover photo and contributing photos, SHOTS Magazine (USA)
December 2008 – Interviewed by Ottawa Citizen and contributed self-portrait, thoughts on the work of Karsh (Canada)

by Ilaria Rebecchi

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