Robert Darch
Durlescombe
Durlescombe is a series of photographs made in Devon in the South West of England during 2015 and 2016. The work documents the people, places, landscapes and local industries of a fading rural culture. But Durlescombe is a constructed, imaginary place. It is an amalgam, a typical town, unspecific and representative, one that provides a narrative distance from the persuasive mode of documentary realism and a space in which questions about familiarity, attachment and belonging might be asked. The images of Durlescombe - a layered assemblage of my photographs, family history pictures and found illustrations - are in this way both actual records and speculative fictions.
Glauco Canalis • Robert Darch • Sian Davey •
University of Brighton
MA Photography
Leeds College of Art
MA Creative Practice
London College of Communication
MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
Royal College of Art
MA Photography
University of South Wales
MA Documentary Photography