Derick Armah
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Derick Armah is a London-based creative practitioner – an audio producer, photographer and researcher, with expertise in representing cultural histories through documentary formats and communal storytelling processes. He’s written poetry, produced documentaries for radio, delivered oral history projects, and crafted storytelling devices for established cultural institutions.
Derick is interdisciplinary, freelance, and taking enquiries.
If you have a podcast in need of producing; an event in need of a photographer; need for a researcher for your creative project, need for a writer, or would like some headshots, please get in touch.
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Photograph by Jamilla Garcia, 35mm film.Some more context...
Derick has a BA History degree from SOAS, University of London, where he examined African diasporic histories that are often contested in Western cultural understandings. It’s this academic background that frames his art – no matter the subject, the aim is peel back layers of history that inform and animate a story. In particular, he’s interested in bringing to light the intimate connections between person and place – how we’re all shaped by, and in turn, shape, our physical, social and historical environments.
He’s also a freelance event and documentary photographer, shooting corporate gatherings, panel discussions, audio listening events and even family funerals. When he’s using film in his spare time, he gravitates towards images taken in the ordinary flow of life. In fact, his approach to documentary storytelling – photographic as well as sonic – comes from his time as a researcher and production assistant with a small documentary production company. There, he gained valuable on-the-job experience with the Sony FS7 II camera, an industry-standard for shooting documentary films.
Derick’s original podcast documentary series Windows was nominated in the Sound Design category in the 2025 Audio Production Awards, and along co-producer Ivan d’Avoine, he continues to chart emotional geographies and collective histories through sound. He’s also part of the Multitrack Audio Producers Fellowship’s 2024 cohort.