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Darren Mahuron
As early as the age of five, Darren Mahuron was drawing in sketchbooks and spent most of his subsequent education doodling to the background noise of his teachers' lectures. He always knew that he would choose a creative path, although he spent most of his young adulthood working any job that would pay the bills.
After exhausting many artistic avenues, such as film school and a stint as a musician, Darren finally decided to invest in photography. Taking pictures was only one of his hobbies until 2005, when he realized that it would be the very thing to liberate him from his dull 9-5 routine.
In choosing photography as a career, Darren made a promise to himself that he would rather fail uncensored than alter his work to succeed; and to his great surprise, his business didn't crumble. Now Darren shoots for clients between working on his own projects.
Photography has been the ideal outlet for the plethora of ideas that well up in his mind and a cathartic way to express some of the more intense moments he experienced in his youth. Even during the slower times when he might feel a creative block, Darren feels privileged to be married to an equally creative mind, his wife Lisa. He is often more invigorated as he watches one of his own original ideas metamorphose into something even better through organic collaboration with her.
Darren's work has been published in Vice, Juxtapoz, Syntax, Spin and Alternative Press Magazines. His prints have been displayed in several venues including The Lincoln Center, The Center For Fine Art Photography and Denver International Airport.
Darren resides in beautiful Fort Collins Colorado with his wife, two daughters, and a hamster named Shelby. He works from a studio in the Historic Avery Building in the heart of Old Town.
1% of the profits from my work goes to support International League of Conservation Photographers.