My name is Darrin Rigo.
I’m a professional photographer/videographer, a coffee addict, a gamer, a podcast binger, and an amateur dad joke teller.
I love cameras. I love making photographs and videos and truthfully, I never know where to start the story of that love because it feels like it was always there.
Home is North
Whenever I begin writing anything about myself, I almost always end up accidentally writing about Northern BC. From being raised on the banks of the Skeena River, to spending my teenage years wandering the borreal forests or hiking the coastal mountains, it’s hard to separate myself from this region.
This place is special to me - the people, the businesses, the places - it all matters and I hope I can use photography and videography to help tell that story.
Marketing x Content
For the last 6 years of my professional career, I have worked professionally in Marketing/Recruitment in a Higher Education and Health Care setting. I have been immersed in discussions of the identification, development, and deployment of marketing that tells the story of a young University that punches above its weight, and of a region that is a destination for young professionals.
As a Northerner, I grew up in a small town that put community above all else. It taught me to take civic pride in all aspects of my community: the diversity, the sustainability, and the people.
Now, as a photo and video content creator, I bring all these parts of me together to create content that is authentic, and speaks with a real, uncontrived voice.
15 years later
I spent my first paycheck from my first job (at Dairy Queen) on a Fuji Finepix HD. A 5MP camera with a 1.5” LCD screen, and 32MB of internal storage - and it was the best decision of my life. I took that thing with me everywhere - and even though it was just photographs of my friends, or fake WWE wrestling entrance videos (yes, that happened and no, you will never see them) - it taught me so much about the importance of capturing meaningful stories and moments.
I take those lessons with me everywhere I go - commercial shoots, wedding shoots, corporate headshots, anything - it started 15 years ago and never stopped.