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<!-- John Darwell (born 1955) is a British photographer.

Darwell was born in Bolton, Lancashire, in 1955.

Darwell has a BA in photography from Manchester Polytechnic, and a PhD from the University of Sunderland. (His thesis was titled A Black Dog Came Calling: A Visualisation of Depression through Contemporary Photography.) He is a Reader in photography at the University of Cumbria.

As a photographer, Darwell "roots himself in neglected landscapes". His early work, published in Working Lives and The Big Ditch, was in black and white, but he moved to colour in 1988 and has not used black and white thereafter.

The Big Ditch
The Manchester Ship Canal, 1983–86.

Working Lives
The working lives of people in small industries in Stockport, 1984–86. By 2010, only two of the companies would still exist.

Regeneration
The closing of Sheffield's largest steel producing plant and the effects of this, 1988–89. With this project, Darwell changed to photographing colour; he would not return.

First and Last
Darwell photographed the rituals commemorating the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

By Association
Photographs of the nuclear testing and production sites.

Legacy
For three weeks in late 1999, Darwell photographed within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone: Pripyat, numerous villages, a landfill site, and people continuing to live within the Zone. This resulted in an exhibition and book titled Legacy.

Dark Days
The first pyre intended to check the British outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in early 2001 took place very close to Darwell's house in Cumbria. Darwell devoted a year to photographing this and its aftermath; the resulting book, Dark Days, "catalogues the destruction that consumed local farming communities and shut Cumbria off from the outside world".

After Schwitters
Darwell followed a route across Europe – Elterwater, Norway, Germany and the Isle of Man – taken by Kurt Schwitters, and photographed what seemed to have the spirit of Schwitters.

A Black Dog Came Calling
An exploration of Darwell's earlier depression, made after his recovery from this. This series contributed toward Darwell's doctoral degree.

Dogs in Cages
Caged dogs, exhibited in 2011 together with other photographers' series with the common title of "Confined".

DDSBs
''DDSBs: Discarded Dog Sh*t<!@@ Don't "debowdlerize" this. It really is spelled "Sh*t", with an asterisk. @@> Bags'' shows "a typology of discarded plastic bags containing dog muck", photographs Darwell presents "as evidence of our half-hearted commitment to the ecological cause". The bags are among objects photographed by Darwell near his home.

"This is Darwell's view of things and the source of his pictures – a feeling that emotion is a great force of nature, an impulse to social sympathy, even when events have passed, and a deep feeling for radical transformations of the environment, whether a 200 mile stretch of coast or a misted pain of window glass."

Books by Darwell

 * Working Lives. Stockport, Ches.: Stockport Museums and Gallery Service, 1986. ISBN 0-905164-36-9. With a foreword by John Baker, an introduction by Frank Galvin, and additional photographs from the Stockport Museum archive.
 * The Big Ditch: The Manchester Ship Canal Seen through the Camera of John Darwell. Chorley, Lancs: Countryside Publications, 1987. ISBN 0-86157-250-5. Photographs of the Manchester Ship Canal.
 * Jimmy Jock, Albert and the Six Sided Clock. Manchester: Cornerhouse, 1993. ISBN 978-0948797620. Photographs of the Port of Liverpool.
 * Legacy: Photographs inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2001. ISBN 978-1899235582.
 * Dark Days. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2007. ISBN 978-1904587422. With essays by Liz Wells, Roger Breeze, David Black and Alison Nordström.
 * Committed to Memory. Carlisle, Cumbria: Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, 2007. ISBN 0-907852-17-3. With an introduction by Paul Herrmann and an essay by Simon Grennan.
 * DDSBs: Discarded Dog Sh*t<!@@ Don't "debowdlerize" this. It really is spelled "Sh*t", with an asterisk. @@> Bags. mynewtpress, 2013.

Booklets and zines by Darwell

 * (h)arris: Images from the Western Isles. Democratic Book no. 9. Cologne: Democratic Books, 2004. A PDF that is freely downloadable from the publisher's website.
 * Sheffield: Tinsley Viaduct. Southport, Merseyside: Café Royal Books, 2013.
 * Sheffield: Meadowhall, Hyde Park, Ponds Forge. Southport, Merseyside: Café Royal Books, 2013.
 * Grangemouth and the Forth Estuary. Southport, Merseyside: Café Royal Books, 2014.
 * Desert States: Photographs from New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Nevada. Chronicles no. 6. Part of Chronicles set 2. Taipei: The Velvet Cell, 2014.
 * Sheffield: Things Seen whilst Wandering around Attercliffe. Southport, Merseyside: Café Royal Books, 2014.
 * Chernobyl. Vol 1. Chronicles no. 13. Taipei: The Velvet Cell, 2014.
 * Chernobyl. Vol 2. Chronicles no. 14. Taipei: The Velvet Cell, 2014.
 * Sheffield: The Remains of Some Buildings around the Don Valley. Southport, Merseyside: Café Royal Books, 2014.
 * Sheffield: In Transition. Southport, Merseyside: Café Royal Books, 2014.
 * The Dark River: Bolton–Farnworth. Southport, Merseyside: Café Royal Books, 2014.

Solo exhibitions

 * Cityscapes. Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, Cumbria, 1984.
 * Landscapes. Stockport Art Gallery, Stockport, 1984.
 * Working Lives. Stockport Art Gallery, Stockport; Side Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, 1986. Bonnington Gallery, Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham, 1987.
 * The Big Ditch. Viewpoint Gallery, Salford, Manchester, 1986.
 * Regeneration. Untitled Gallery, Sheffield, 1989.
 * Borderland. Manor Gallery, Carlisle, Cumbria, 1989.
 * The Big Ditch. Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, Blackburn; Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool, 1990. Castle Park Arts Centre, Frodsham, Cheshire, 1991. Calderdale Industrial Museum, Halifax, Yorkshire; Manor Gallery, Carlisle, 1992. Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead, 1993. Duncan of Jordanstone Gallery, Dundee, 1994.
 * Jimmy Jock, Albert and the Six Sided Clock. Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool. May–September 1993. Fotonoviembre, Centro de Fotografía Isla de Tenerife, 1995.
 * Scratching the Surface. Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, 1994.
 * Workplace. Durham Art Gallery, Durham, 1996.
 * In Isolation. Euston Station Escalators, London, 1996.
 * Where it all began. Centro Colombo Americano, Medellín, Colombia, 1996.
 * By Association. Mill Gallery, Carlisle, 1997. Landscapes associated with nuclear testing and energy generation.
 * First and Last. Viewpoint Gallery, Salford, 1997. Rituals in Japan to commemorate the atomic bombs.
 * By Association. Folly Gallery, Lancaster; Tom Blau Gallery, London, 2001
 * Legacy. Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, 2001.
 * Consequences. Gallery Oldham, 2002.
 * After Schwitters – Kurt Schwitters and the Merzbarn Conference. Cumbria, 2003.
 * h)arris. Installation sited at 15 rail stations along Cumbrian Coast Line, 2004.
 * A Black Dog Came Calling and Melancholy Objects. Institute of Psychiatry Gallery, King's College London. November 2005 – February 2006.
 * Committed to Memory. Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle. May–July 2007.
 * Working Lives. Stockport Art Gallery, February–March 2011. Darwell's photographs from 1985.
 * Dogs in Cages. Look 11 International Photography Festival, Confined. The Bluecoat, Liverpool, May–July 2011.
 * After Schwitters. Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle. February–April 2013.

Public collections

 * Victoria and Albert Museum, London
 * King's College / Maudsley Hospital Trust, London
 * British Film Institute, London
 * Site Gallery, Sheffield
 * National Media Museum / Sun Life Collection, Bradford
 * Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool
 * Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle
 * Manchester Art Gallery
 * Arts Council North West, Manchester
 * Stockport Art Gallery, Stockport
 * Viewpoint Gallery, Salford
 * Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
 * Centro de Fotografía Isla de Tenerife