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Darren Guy Massie, Photographer

Born on March 6th 1961 on the island of Jersey, British Channel Islands, Darren Guy Massie started practising Photography at the age of 20 years old. Following a course in a photographic school in Paris from 1981 to 1983, he photographed people in the streets of the French capital from 1981 to 1991, essentially in Black and White. From 1994 to 1996, he worked for a French Travel Magazine,' Détours en France' ( N° 27,28,29 ), covering various French regions,photographing people,landscapes and architecture. Meanwhile, he exhibited his Work at the Galerie Nesle,at Saint Germain des Prés, in Paris, while being recognised by the French Newspaper ' Le Républicain ' ( November 1995). As off 1997 till the year 2000, he then worked as an assistant-photographer in Commercial Photography, before travelling to Hong-Kong and Argentina. Son of an RAF ( Royal Air Force ) navigator, he extensively photographed planes on the airplane base of Cerny, in 2003. The following year, he created his own business, photographing children in schools, weddings,as well as horses, before exhibiting his work in the town of Milly-la-Forêt in 2007. He now has his own photographic studio in his house at Boulancourt, to the south of Paris,taking essentially portraits, and is currently also photographing people in the streets, as he did almost 30 years ago, in Black and White. An exhibition is under way to be displayed on the outside walls of the Jardin du Luxembourg, in Paris, in 2011. Could someone please give me his or her opinion about this page ? Thank you !