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Todd R Darling

Documentary Photographer | US | HONG KONG
  • Paterson
    • American Idyll
    • Paterson Collab Portraits
  • 香港 Hong Kong
    • Umbrella Movement
    • Anti-Extradition Law Protests
    • Hong Kong Collab Portraits
  • Phillipines 2015 - 2016
  • Street Current
  • Buy IDYLL Photobook
  • News
  • Instagram
  • Bio
  • Privacy Policy


T. 973.997.9869 (USA)
T. 852.6100.5334 (HK)
E. todd@toddrdarling.com


Currently in 香港 Hong Kong

View fullsize 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐆𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲⁠
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There is only 20 days left to support my project #AmericanIdyll during its pre-sale stage which is the best time to do it.⁠
I have been making test after test to get the papers, varnishes, and toning just rig
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Photo caption:
1. Monkey on Mount Batur at sunrise.
2. Ogoh Ogoh idol stored during the festival of Nyepi which was cancelled.
View fullsize Online Exhibition - American Idyll @TruthInPhotography⁠⁠
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Photo caption:⁠⁠⁠
1) A bike crew riding near the corner of Summer Street and Broadway. 2016-2017. ⁠⁠
2)The grandmaster of the Peruvian pride parade leads followers at the annual event. Pater
View fullsize American Idyll is a lyrical interrogation of the American Dream set in Paterson, New Jersey. I chose Paterson as my subject because it was the prototype for the American industrial city and represented the myth of America. 10% of sales generated from
View fullsize Thank you @Fotonostrum for featuring my project American Idyll on Issue No.7.⁠⁠
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My Paterson work was about re-discovering my home after being in Hong Kong for 15 years. I wanted to explore America and Paterson as a microcosm of America and its myt
View fullsize Look & Learn, The British Journal of Photography @bjp1854, 2017⁠⁠
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“The images are beautiful, shocking, and surreal. They have a timeless quality that evokes much earlier photography, which seems to emphasize the horror that such deprivat
View fullsize Thank you @museemagazine featuring American Idyll:⁠⁠
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"Shot entirely in black and white, the series has a timeless quality. There is a palpable sense of a city on pause, of a community trapped in a post-industrial state with declining prospect
View fullsize “The images are beautiful, shocking, and surreal. They have a timeless quality that evokes much earlier photography, which seems to emphasize the horror that such deprivation can continue to exist in America, one of the richest nations in the w
View fullsize Spreads from American Idyll (Link in Bio to buy my book @Kickstarter - http://kck.st/3cHkkU2)⁠⁠
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American Idyll, is a personal body of work that was completed over 2016 and 2017 in Paterson, New Jersey, a city close to my home and heart. The photog
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Part of collecting and archiving materials included what I found at garage sales, on ebay, or just walking around. Dealers and were always switching up their brands to and purities. A new brand would emerge and it
View fullsize 𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧, 𝐍𝐉. - 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟕⁠⁠
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I may have been able to fill a book only with these. Birds and crosses were a recurring theme I came back to again and again wondering the streets and alleys of the c
View fullsize American Idyll is 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄 @ 𝐊𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑 now - (link in bio - http://kck.st/3cHkkU2)⁠⁠
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American Idyll, is a personal body of work that was completed over 2016 and 2017 in Paterson, New Jersey, a city close to my home and heart. The phot
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Follow my account @ToddrDarling on Instagram and like this picture for a chance to receive an 8x12 open-edition, archival pigment print of this image.⁠
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Photo Caption: ⁠
Boy at Peace March⁠
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April 08, 2017 - Paterson
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“ A visitor may have difficulty believing he is in the same country that has produced the nearby Empire State Building… The skyscraper is visible from the surrou
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“ Every fifteen minutes Inter-City Transportation Company’s Number 30 bus leaves the Port Authority Terminal in New York City. After passing under the Hudson River, v
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"What does it mean to be Amerian?" - January 28, 2017. Interview with Willis. ⁠
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TD: So my last question to you is what does it mean to you to be an American? (46:00)⁠
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W: Some freedom I suppose because I've been on vacation in terrible