Darryl Baird, Photographer

Originally from Dallas, Texas Darryl Baird has a fifty-year(+) career as a photographer and educator. His initial education was at the United States Naval School of Photography in Pensacola, Florida. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts, in Broadcast-Film Arts from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. 

He worked for twenty years as a commercial architectural, advertising, and editorial photographer. He left the commercial field for graduate school, first in a doctoral program in Aesthetic Studies at the University of Texas-Dallas, and later earned a Master of Fine Arts in Photography at the University of North Texas. 

Darryl retired as Professor of Art (Emeritus) at the University of Michigan-Flint where he created and taught graphic design and photography programs. He led the department as chair of the Communication and Visual Arts department for a critical transition to combine the disciplines. 

He currently works across a wide spectrum of techniques and media, from large format (8×10) using vintage 19th-century optics printing with antiquarian processes to high-resolution digital images, frequently using the same vintage optics. His work is included in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Art, Museum of Fine Art in Houston Texas, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art in Ann Arbor, Michigan. 

Darryl, with his wife and son moved to South Beach in 2020 to start a new direction in life. He’s retired to pursue art full-time, she works in the aquarium world, and their son is a budding troublemaker, questioning authority at every step.

To view more of Darryl Baird’s photography visit his website.