Photography Exhibit Opens March 17 at NC Wesleyan’s Mims Gallery

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March 2, 2006

Photography Exhibit Opens March 17 at NC Wesleyan’s Mims Gallery

Rocky Mount, N.C.—Darryl Daley has been taking pictures seriously since he was a teenager, developing black and white photographs in a darkroom set up in his parents’ home. Today, an associate professor of biology at North Carolina Wesleyan College, Dr. Daley has graduated to cutting-edge digital media. His life-long parallel artistic career as a photographer will be recognized in an exhibition of his nature photographs in the Mims Gallery in Wesleyan’s Dunn Center. “From Backyards to National Parks” opens with a free public reception at 7 p.m. Friday, March 17. The display chronicles his passion for our natural world, great and small, and will continue until May 16, 2006.

Dr. Daley has had photographs published in the 2003 issue of Discovery: The Magazine of the Royal British Columbia Museum, for the University of Michigan Geology Department, and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 2004. He initiated and taught classes in black and white photography for Wesleyan’s January-Term. Family-centered, Daley has generously given of his talents for team photos and presentations at Faith Christian School in Rocky Mount and Community Christian School in Wilson.

With bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Wayne State and a doctorate in biology from the University of Illinois, Dr. Daley has enjoyed a professional career as a scientist and biology professor that has taken him across the United States from Utah and Illinois to North Carolina, connecting him to a world of mountains, prairies, and seashores. As his role as scientist and teacher has grown steadily, so has his attention to his parallel career as photographer. He has studied photography and attended workshops and lectures with notables such as Elliot Porter, Galen Rowell, and John Shaw.

Gallery hours are from 9-5 daily and during all Dunn Center evening performances. Tours are welcome; please call 252-985-5268 for details.

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