Introduction
Liz Darlington is a photographer from New Zealand currently residing in the United States. Her work has been exhibited both locally and nationally. Coming from a background in the television and new media industry, she combines digital processes with traditional photographic methods to construct cinematic tableaus. She draws the imagery from her extensive travels that have taken her to more than 40 different countries over the last 17 years.
Her work frequently seeks to question the relationship between photographic representation and memory. Memories are an amalgam of events, people, places, thoughts and ideas that are transient by nature, and frequently misrepresent actual lived experience. The fictionalized – even dreamlike – quality of the images attempts to instill a timelessness; they represent neither past, nor present, nor future. Despite their self-evident falsity, we are inexplicably drawn towards the romance and the nostalgia of the images, perhaps because they are fictionalized and culturally determined much like memory. Although her work can easily be read as pictorialist photography, the images evoke a sense of discomfort that firmly grounds the series in the context of post-millennium contemporary art.
Darlington resides part of her year in the United States and the other part in the South of France. She is currently employed as a Professor of Photography at Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia
![Constructs [Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic], 2005](https://images.cache.artphotoindex.com/userimages/10/10922/1/4166_extralarge.jpg "Constructs [Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic], 2005")
![Constructs [Nimes, France], 2006](https://images.cache.artphotoindex.com/userimages/10/10922/1/4167_extralarge.jpg "Constructs [Nimes, France], 2006")
