Darren-Ell's photostream  

Darren Ell works primarily in portraiture and documentary reportage. His portraits of illegal detainees and refugees facing deportation was a winner in New York’s P.D.N Thirty Under Thirty contest in 2007, and in the 2008 Montreal Arts Council Touring Exhibition competition.

His documentary coverage of the impact of the 2004 coup d'état in Haiti was published in a full online dossier with the National Film Board of Canada's Citizenshift, and with the Haiti Information Project, winner of a 2008 Project Censored award for making events in Haiti one of the most important under-reported stories in the world. His stories on Haiti were picked up by independent news sites around the world, including Global Policy Forum, Pacific Free Press, Upside Down World, Rabble.ca, Open Salon and many others.

His documentary work on the impact of the Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza during the Second Intifada was published by Chicago’s Electronic Intifada and became an exhibition exhibited in Montreal and Winnipeg in 2004 and 2005. The exhibition was the winner of Concordia University's Prize for Contemporary Issues and the Heather walker Memorial Scholarship.

He is currently working on two portrait projects: one explores the lives of students in a high school for the poor located in the richest neighborhood in Haiti; the other explores the struggles and aspirations of adult immigrant students in Montreal.

His images have been published in Canada by CBC-Radio-Canada, the Toronto Star, the National Post, La Presse, Chatelaine, Citizenshift (National Film Board of Canada), Montreal Mirror, Hour, Denière heure, Dominion, Canadian Dimension, Briarpatch Magazine, Alternatives le journal, Siafu Magazine, Tadamon! and Montreal Serai. His work has been published internationally with Aljazeera International, Electronic Intifada, Electronic Lebanon, MIFTAH (Jerusalem), Haiti Analysis and Haiti Action.

Darren's commercial work focuses on performance and wedding photography.