Erin Derby (San Jose, CA) graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a BA in both Film and Latin American & Iberian Studies. Her early career was primarily photojournalism. Over time she evolved a fine art cynosure balanced with considerable commercial photography success. In the latter, she continues to do portraiture, interiors and still-life work. Her early fine art work explored expired 4x5 polaroid and 35mm film, with its painterly quality. The strong imperfections of these aged mediums as well as their eroded hues communicated an ethereal quality to her botanical images. In her more recent work, Reimagining Nature & The Nocturnals and Elysian Fields, she has returned to botanicals. Working with her unique mindfulness for lighting and detail, she builds wholly new imagery. These results are at once familiar and strikingly unfamiliar. Erin’s botanical photography celebrates the beauty, fragility, and vibrancy of nature, capturing fleeting moments of natural life in vivid detail. She aims to create timeless images that convey a sense of awe and wonder when interacting with the natural world. In her work Erin strives to evoke an emotional response from her audience by capturing the delicate, ever-changing beauty of botanical life.
Erin’s recent work was awarded the Prix de la Photographie Paris Bronze award, and an AI-AP American Photography selected winner. Her commercial work is widely published, including Architectural Digest, Epoca Magazine, House Beautiful as well as commissions for Donna Karan, Herman Miller, Gensler, Duralee, and Michael Aram, among others.
Famous for her love of hooded sweatshirts, bottomless black coffee, and almost anything made of sugar, Erin Derby lives in Brooklyn, NY with her bright and shiny daughter, and a gaggle of animals.
About the photographer
Contact
Email
erin@erinderby.com
Phone
646.621.5159
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An Abbreviated Client List
Toyota
Gensler
Apartment Therapy
Donna Karan Home
The Times UK
Mandala Club
Amazon
MillerKnoll
Martha Stewart
GAP
Tiffany&Co.
Douglas Elliman
Matouk
John Robshaw
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