Darren Voisey - Fine Art photographer and curator.
- Isobel Arden
- Jul 26
- 3 min read
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Meet Darren Voisey - A life's journey in capturing and collecting.
Darren Voisey is a fine art photographer with a camera in one hand and a curator's clipboard in the other (metaphorically, of course). Currently in the final year of his BA (Hons) in Photography at the University of Salford, Darren is carving a dual path—one behind the lens, and the other inside the gallery walls.
In the interview Mark created Darren's fantasy cultural year with a magic wand and time machine to hand. Expect surprises, anecdotes and conversation detours.
Specialising in lens-based art, Darren’s practice combines technical prowess with a strong sense of narrative and aesthetic discipline.
He’s already made an impression on the arts scene with exhibitions and curatorial experience at Twenty Twenty Two and The 5.17 Micro Gallery.
In 2025 alone, he was shortlisted for the prestigious Dark Peak Photography Festival and nominated for the Photo London X Hahnemühle Student Award, proving that both his creative and professional potential are being noticed.
Not just a creative, Darren is also a technician’s technician. His toolkit spans lighting, analogue processes, colour theory, composition, framing, archiving, and both digital and darkroom printing. He’s as comfortable dodging and burning prints as he is curating them for public consumption. Software? He's fluent in Capture One, Lightroom, Photoshop, Vuescan, Negative Lab Pro, and all things file storage and cataloguing.
His work at the Open Eye Gallery, where he volunteered, gave him invaluable insight into curatorial practice and collections care—experience he's keen to build on. Darren’s ambitions lie in further study and securing a role as a junior curator or collections assistant, where he can merge his photographic practice with his growing expertise in arts administration.
Dedicated to both personal and professional growth, Darren is committed to contributing meaningfully to the arts sector. Whether he’s behind the camera or installing a show, one thing’s certain: Darren Voisey is developing a practice as thoughtful as it is technically grounded.
Interview summary
In his conversation with Mark Walmsley, Founder of The Arts and Culture Network, photographer Darren shared his emotionally rich work, exploring themes of mental health, grief, and trauma through analogue processes and medium format film.
His current project, Honouring my Break, uses multiple exposures to visualise anxiety—something Mark described as "animated with constriction and chaos." The two also discussed photographer Kirsty Mitchell, fantasy-inspired travel, and a dream cultural itinerary including Shakespeare, Phantom of the Opera, and a concert with Evanescence.
Together, they imagined Darren’s fantasy year: based in Crete, limited to electro swing music, and filled with time-travelling adventures to 19th-century London, New York, and Christchurch. Their conversation wrapped with the playful quick-fire This or That game and a shared belief in the power of community funding for the arts.
Examples of Darren's work
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