Born in Birmingham, 1979, photographer, artist and educator Robert Darch has always been a dreamer. Also ambitious, determined and driven, in 2000, he secured a place to study on the prestigious Documentary Photography degree course at Newport, Wales. He couldn’t have dreamt what happened next. Just before the start of his second year, aged 22, Robert was rushed into hospital after suffering a seizure, later diagnosed as a transient ischemic attack (minor stroke). The terrifying experience was followed by a diagnosis for glandular fever then chronic fatigue syndrome M.E. Working mainly from home, it took him four years to complete his degree and ten years to recover enough to re-emerge into the outside world. During a decade of isolation and loneliness, he turned inwards, immersing his life in fiction, daydreams…