DARREN TAN
TRAINED IN CINEMATOGRAPHY, DARREN HAS AN AVID INTEREST IN ALL THINGS VISUAL. VIDEOS AND PHOTOS ARE JUST MEDIUMS THAT DARREN USE TO PORTRAY WHAT HE SEES. THE STORIES BEHIND THE SUBJECTS ARE OFTEN WHAT DRAWS HIM TO DOCUMENT.
DARREN’S INTERESTS LIES MAINLY WITH DOCUMENTARY JOURNALISM, TO BE ABLE TO CAPTURE MOMENTS AND EVOKE EMOTIONS. AS A PHOTOGRAPHER FOR MECRY RELIEF, DARREN HAS BEEN ABLE TO DOCUMENT HUMANITARIAN EFFORTS FIRST HAND IN MYANMAR AND THE PHILIPPINES. DARREN HAS ALSO BEEN TO INDIA TO FILM TWO DOCUMENTARIES ABOUT THE WORLD FOOD CRISIS.
“THE LINES BETWEEN PHOTOGAPHY AND VIDEOGRAPHY HAVE BLURRED SO MUCH IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS THAT I CAN NO LONGER CALL MYSELF A PHOTOGRAPHER OR VIDEOGRAPHER, RATHER, A VISUAL ARTIST, ONE WHO DEALS WITH MIXED MULTIMEDIA.”
(DARREN TAN, 2009)