Painting with Light in a Dark World

Synopsis

Since arriving penniless in Sydney 20 years ago, Peter Darren Moyle has carried his old 1936 medium-format camera to the frontline of the inner-city badlands, traversing terrain that no other photographer would dare to tread.

The tireless intensity of his work has meant eating out of rubbish bins so as to afford film, sleeping rough alongside derelicts and setting up darkrooms in abandoned warehouses.

The result is a collection of black and white imagery documenting a social history largely absent from the wider collective consciousness.

Using interviews and observational footage, the multi-award winning Painting with Light in a Dark World builds an uncompromising portrait of Peter Darren Moyle. It integrates his remarkable life story with his photographic work, introducing the viewer to some of the people who have been the subjects of his photography along the way.