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Darren Smith is an Amsterdam-based photographer whose work explores the intersection of identity, ritual, and social environments, focusing on how individuals construct and perform presence within collective contexts.

Since 2016, his work Mayflies is a photographic series that continues to evolve on temporary communities, ritual time, and the construction of identity. The project is regularly expanded.

BLACK HEAT

Key Art & Character portraits

Client: BLacklight, Dark Star Films
Director: Wes Miller
Producer: Andrew van Houten
Design: Small Dog Canada

One night, two parents, out of options, infiltrate a top level drug dealer/pimp's apartment complex to rescue their teenage daughter.

Shot on location in Orlando, Florida.

IDEA: Drama facing Action movie poster that captures the Director’s lover of grindhouse films and the gritty realism of perilous apartment complex, the signature location, that serves as both a crack house and a war zone.