Dutch/British, b. 1977
Merlin Daleman (b.1977) is half British and half Dutch and lives and works in the Netherlands.
He attended South Devon College, Torquay and the University of Central England (now Birmingham City University) in the UK, and graduated from The Royal College of Art in The Hague, Netherlands.
He works as a freelance documentary photographer for leading Dutch publications, including NRC Handelsblad, Dagblad, Trouw, Financieel Dagblad, and De Groene Amsterdammer.
He is the recipient of awards including the Silver Camera awards for Documentary Photography in the Netherlands in 2008 and 2010 and has received grants from the EU Journalism Foundation Grant and the Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship to further his work.
His first photo book ‘Mutiny’, published in 2025 by GOST, looks at the regions of the United Kingdom that voted overwhelmingly to leave the EU. Other long term projects include the new black lung epidemic in Kentucky, USA and an exploration of the lives of families separated by labour migration in Ukraine.