Darlow was a member of the Format Women's Photography co-operative from the mid 1980s, after she graduated from the West Surrey College of Art & Design.
Her images of women's lives were published primarily by left-leaning journals in the United Kingdom (including New Internationalist, The Times Literary Supplement and The Economist) and in India.
She spent some time working at the offices of Manushi, an organisation highlighting women's issues in Delhi.
Darlow married and moved to Modena, Italy, raising a daughter there and documenting the bike culture of that city as well as publishing recipes.
[3] Darlow died from cancer in 2011, just short of her 51st birthday, returning to the UK to spend her last days at a Christian Science hospice.