International award winning photographer. i.e. Worlds Best 200 advertising photographers -2009/10/11 and 18. American Photography awards winner 2019. Black & White spider awards winner 2019. British D&AD awards. Taylor-Wessing Portrait Prize. Send-a-Cow UK charity 30 anniversary book 2019. Fair Trade worldwide.
Projects
- The House of KasilinaCommission for the UK based charity 'Send a Cow' celebrating their 30th anniversary of working with the impoverished in Africa. Two days spent with 70yr old Kasilina and her family in her old run down, two-room home of twenty five years. She is at last about to move into her newly built house nearby that the charity has helped to facilitate. The charity's 30th anniversary book of my work about Kasilina and others like her in Uganda, was produced and published by the charity in 2019.
- Boardwalk to the Black SeaEvery summer, hundreds of thousands of people from all over Romania head to the only coastline with a beach to spend their annual holidays. This photography project was conceived as a print-gallery series of two-dimensional small paintings almost with this wonderful variety of life simply walking across each 'canvas'. Full set on www.darranrees.com
Projects credited in
- JWTJWT is one of the UK’s largest agencies and the oldest international agency network. This year we are proud to celebrate 150 years since James Walter Thompson invented the world of advertising. He was a pioneer and pioneering is what we continue to do: from the establishment of the first ever Account Planning Department to the unique KitKat Android partnership to broadcasting ads from Space in 2012 and from a war zone in Afghanistan in 2013. We invent pioneering ideas that people want to participate in and spend time with for an extraordinary list of clients, local and global, including HSBC, Shell, Canon, the Army, Debenhams, Nestle, Kimberly-Clark, Unilever, Nokia and Johnson & Johnson. Recent awards: 7 APG Creative Strategy Awards in 2013 (including the Grand Prix and three Golds). Agency of The Year at The International Food and Beverage Creative Excellence Awards. 3 Awards at the 2012 Marketing Society Awards for Excellence. Consumer Advertising Agency of the Year at The Grocer Marketing, Advertising & PR (MAP) Awards 2011, 2010 and 2009. 4 Creative Circle Awards and 4 Eurobest Awards ...and most recently a Cannes PR Silver Lion and a Mobile Bronze Lion. We are passionate about the continuous development of our exceptional Talent: JWT holds a record 5 IPA CPD Gold awards and holds the 2014 IPA Grand Prix Platinum Award for sustained professional development excellence, one of just 3 creative agencies from the IPA membership of over 320 to receive this accolade. Why? We absolutely believe in supporting our staff to develop their skills throughout their career with JWT. We offer our staff the full range of industry qualifications , unique JWT international seminars, weekly inspiration sessions , bespoke discipline specific Academies, our own Digital Diploma, and of course WPP, APG, IPA, NABS, AAR and Google Squared programmes.1
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Awards Include : 2019 American Photography AP35 winner; LUCIe/IPA awards 2017 ( honourable mentions two categories ) :WORLD'S BEST 200 Ad Photographers Book ( 2009,10,11, 2018 ) TAYLOR-WESSING Int'l PHOTO PRIZE 2013-National Portrait Gallery-London; The British D&AD Awards -best use of Photography ; The UK. AOP awards ; UK CAMPAIGN PRESS Awards ; ETAP Awards-FRANCE ; ; USA KELLY AWARDS FINALIST; ITALIAN D&AD Awards ( best use of photography ) and the USA COMMUNICATION ARTS Awards ;