Merlin Daleman was born in 1977. He is half British and half Dutch, and he lives and works in the Netherlands.
He studied at South Devon College in Torquay and at the University of Central England, now Birmingham City University, and graduated in The Hague. He works as a freelance documentary photographer for Dutch publications such as NRC Handelsblad, Dagblad Trouw, Financieel Dagblad and De Groene Amsterdammer.
He won the Silver Camera award for Documentary Photography in the Netherlands in 2008 and 2010. He also received an EU Journalism Foundation grant and a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship.
His first photobook, Mutiny, was published by GOST Books in 2025. It has 256 pages. He shot it between 2017 and 2024 in more than 60 places in post-Brexit Britain, from Aberdeen to Skegness.
