DERRICK SANTINI HAILS FROM SCARBOROUGH, NORTH YORKSHIRE AND DISCOVERED HIS LOVE FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT THE AGE OF THIRTEEN, TAKING PICTURES WITH HIS MUM’S OLD AGFA CAMERA. DERRICK SPENT HIS TEENAGE YEARS RECORDING EVERYTHING HE SAW; INITIALLY A SILENT AND PASSIVE OBSERVER, HE CAME TO REGARD THE IMAGES HE TOOK AS SLICES OF LIFE, ‘MOMENTS IN-BETWEEN’, AS STATEMENTS ABOUT THE INDIVIDUAL, SOCIETY, CULTURE, ULTIMATELY AS AN EXPRESSION OF THE HUMAN CONDITION. DERRICK THEN WENT ONTO HARROGATE ART COLLEGE TO STUDY FOR A BTEC IN PHOTOGRAPHY, WHICH WAS FOLLOWED BY A BA HONS IN 'PHOTOGRAPHY AND COMMUNICATION' AT THE LONDON COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION (FORMERLY LCP) DERRICK’S TALENT SAW HIM PROPELLED INTO THE FIELDS OF PORTRAITURE, MUSIC PHOTOGRAPHY, FASHION AND ADVERTISING, WHERE HE DEVELOPED A MORE CONFRONTATIONAL APPROACH TO IMAGE MAKING - ONE BASED ON INTERACTION AND PERSONALITY AND IS RENOWNED FOR HIS INTIMATE AND INSIGHTFUL PORTRAITURE STYLE.
FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS DERRICK HAS BEEN EXPERIMENTING WITH LENTICULAR PHOTO WORKS, WHICH HAVE TAKEN OFF SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE LAST COULPLE YEARS.. THESE BEGILING PIECES HAVE PROVEN EXTREMELY POPULAR WITH GALLERISTS AND COLLECTORS ALIKE, COUNTING ADELE, DAMIEN HIRST AND JEMIMA KHAN AS OWNERS AND CHAMPIONS OF HIS WORK.
