Photographer New York // London
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About

b. 1986, HK.

As of November 2025: I started work as a Senior Staff Photographer for The New York Times Wirecutter. This limits my freelance schedule somewhat, but my inbox is still open for the right project!

Winner of 2026 National Gallery of Art (Washington DC) Open Call. See the final project here

More about Ruthie….

I am a mysterious figure and can often be found in my photo studio or wandering around in the cheese aisle. I was raised in the Industrial Black Country area of England. At 18 years old I threw off the shackles of working down the mine and headed straight for the bright lights of London to be an artist. Turns out that London was full, so I boarded a boat, the Queen Mary 2 to be exact, and sang my way across the seas as a nightclub singer. Upon arrival in New York, I set to work cobbling together a career of sorts as an actress, writer, and photographer. I worked with with Sting on his musical The Last Ship which, inexplicably, took place in the Mormon stronghold of Utah. I moved from there to a four-line role in the tv show Mr Robot in which I played a “British party girl” which was, as you can imagine, an enormous stretch, I wrote and shot for various national publications, I worked full time as an in-house photographer at a large coffee company and at an NYC based advertising agency before branching out on my own as a freelance photographer. Since then my life as an artist has taken off. I’ve shot for large international companies who paid me the big bucks and small start-ups who refuse to pay until I’m literally stalking them at their WeWork offices, and everything in between.

Like you, I am many things, I have succeeded and I have failed. Here are some things about me that you may wish to know: I woo men with my sensuous and god-like kazoo playing. I know the exact layout of all 6 train exits. I am an expert in crown molding, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Cuba. I make 30 minute rice in 20 minutes. While on holiday in Wales, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. I’m a ruthless bookie. I know who the Zodiac Killer is. Children trust me. I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I’ve read Midnight’s Children. I work freelance for the CIA (mainly in accounting). On weekends, to let off steam, I partake in full contact origami. I have played Hamlet. I make gourmet-level four course meals using only a sandwich press, and I have spoken with Elvis. One thing I have not done, however, is work with you to bring your project to life. So let’s add that to list shall we?

CV available upon request.

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+44 7946031986

ruthiedarlingblog@gmail.com

CLIENTS :

  • Johnson & Johnson

  • Tangle Teezer

  • The New York Times

  • The New Yorker

  • Elijah Craig

  • Evan Williams

  • Death Wish Coffee

  • Xenopsi Media

  • FlexIt

  • Plus many small brands and start-ups