Robert Darch

[3] Darch's work was included in the book Another Country: British Documentary Photography Since 1945, by Gerry Badger and published by Thames & Hudson.

[5] The Moor (2018) depicts a fictionalised dystopian future situated on the bleak moorland landscapes of Dartmoor, Devon.

[6][7][8] Vale (2020) reflects on a long period of ill health Darch suffered in his twenties and the isolation and loneliness he experienced because of that.

Whilst he was ill he would get lost in daydream and fiction, creating imaginary worlds to temper the isolation and sadness.

Vale reflects on this lost time and imagines a fictional summer spent swimming in rivers and exploring woods, underscored by a sustained sense of eeriness.