Darcy Bruce Espie Lange (22 September 1946 – 8 August 2005) was a New Zealand artist born in Urenui.
[1] Beginning in the United Kingdom in the 1970s, Lange pioneered a social documentary practice with video, filming people in working environments such as schools, factories and farms.
[2] Lange returned to New Zealand in 1974, continuing his practice documenting working lives and, notably, Māori activism through the Maori Land Project (1977–1981).
Working closely with photographer John Miller, Lange documented the conflict between Māori and the New Zealand government around the Ngāti Hine Block and Bastion Point land cases.
[3][4] In 1979, Lange relocated to the Netherlands and worked with René Coelho to produce a programme for Nederlandse Omroep Stichting based on the Maori Land Project followed by a collaboration with the University of Utrecht titled The Maori Land Struggle.