Dorrell Merritt is a London-based writer, visual artist, and publisher.
As a writer, he produces works across interviews, reviews, essays, poems and short fiction. Editorially, he has been published by The Guardian, Artforum, ArtReview, Huck Magazine, Hunger Magazine, Lampoon Magazine, Berlin Art Link, Sang Bleu Magazine, Paper Journal, Twin Magazine, BKN Magazine, Dazed Digital and more. He previously served as a contributor to European photography magazine, Photomonitor (2018-2024). As a poet, he has self-published a number of collections both digitally and physically. He is currently in the process of working on his debut short-fiction collection.
As a visual artist, his practice spans photography, moving-image, graphic design, wheatpasting and text. Themes such as nature, sexuality, isolation, voyeurism, identity, cynicism and the uncanny regularly manifest within and across his work.
Additionally, he creates contemporary artefacts and printed matter by way of personal imprints SEED Atelier and SEED Editions. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of photographic conversation series, SEED Monograph and tattoo conversation series, Quo Vadis.
Stockists M-Zin (MDBK, Leipzig)
Good Press (Glasgow) Selected Publications
Moriyama at Hamiltons (2022)
Carhartt Blood and other new poems (2021) DUST/MORTAR (2019) Quo Vadis XXII.— Bad Mood Marty in conversation (2018)
SEED Monograph IX.— Mon Levchenkova in conversation (2018)
January, and other poems (2015)
Ticket, and other new poems (2014)
Titan Arum (2013)
The Thames Link (2013)