The English artist Darren Almond (b. 1971) works with installation, film, photography and sculpture. He has a recurrent interest in time, duration and memory. These abstract ideas are transformed into concrete motives and installations such as photographs of remote landscapes, 600 digital flip clocks and a full scale bus stop in aluminium and glass. Many of Darren Almond's photographs are taken at inaccessible locations and show his physical and mental journeys to track down and visualize historic places and collective memories.
Darren Almond has visited the workshop in 2004 and 2007 where he made Lacock Filmback Blue and Green, Midnight Mousetrap and Norilsk in 2007. During his first stay he made four photo lithographs capturing the exact same window as the legendary developer of photography William Henry Fox Talbot did in 1835. As a special feature Darren Almond chose to use phosphorous paint that enlightens the window parts in darkness. Norilsk is a series of seventeen photo lithographs taken in the Siberian northernmost city by the same name. The snowy landscapes are beautifully captured and at the same time there is a gravity lurking beneath the remains of the Gulag camps that used to pollute the city.
