Section / 145078 · Photography

Looking slowly,
and on foot.

Selected photographic work from 2014 onward — long-form documentary, editorial portraits, and landscape essays. Mostly made while walking. Always printed before published.

Series
12
Years Active
2014–
Based
Berlin · DE
Format
35mm · 6×7
Editorial portrait of a figure beside a tall window, soft window light, black and white
From "Long Light of the North"
02 — Series Index

Twelve series. Listed in order of making.

03 — Featured Series

Long Light of the North

Made over fourteen months along the coastal edges of northern Norway and the Faroe Islands. The work moves slowly — long exposures, longer walks, weather waited out for days at a time. Sixty-eight frames in total, of which twenty-four were carried into the final edit.

The series was first shown as a printed book in 2017 (Kehrer Verlag, 96 pages, edition of 1,500) and has been exhibited in Berlin, Oslo, and Reykjavík.

Period
2015–2016
Frames
68 (24 final)
Locations
NO · FO
Format
6×7 · Tri-X
Tall cliff under low cloud, northern coastline, monochrome
Frame 04 · Lofoten, 2015
Wide view of a fjord under flat grey light
Frame 17 · Senja, 2016
Single sea-worn rock at low tide, square format
Frame 22 · Faroe, 2016
Small dark cabin against a pale northern sky
Frame 31 · Vesterålen, 2016
Portrait of Derek W. Russell, photographer, in his Berlin studio
Berlin Studio · 2024
04 — About the Photographer

Derek W. Russell — photographer, walker, printer.

Born 1986 in Portland, Oregon. Lives and works in Berlin since 2012. Works exclusively in film — 35mm for street and editorial, 6×7 for landscape. Every frame is printed by hand in a darkroom on Sonnenallee before it is published anywhere.

Selected clients include The New York Times Magazine, M le Monde, Aperture, Monocle, and Patagonia. Two monographs published. Work held in private collections in Europe and North America.

05 — Commission / Print

If you'd like to work together.

Editorial commissions, print sales, and exhibition licensing are handled directly by studio. Average response time is 48 hours. Please include a brief about the project in your first message.

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