Darin Mickey, chair of the Creative Practices program, is a New York–based photographer and musician. He is the author of Death Takes a Holiday, J&L Books 2016, Stuff I Gotta Remember Not To Forget, J&L Books 2007, and co-author of Glacial Erratics, Roman Nvmerals 2024. His photographic work has appeared in numerous publications, including Aperture, the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, VICE, the Washington Post Magazine, I.D., FOAM, and Doubletake among others.  
He has exhibited work in both solo and group exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Detroit, Cleveland, Rome, Copenhagen, Sydney, and Tokyo, and is included in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art Watson Library Collection, Museum of Modern Art Library Collection, the Museum of The City of New York, Museo d’Arte Contemporenea di Roma, and others. He has contributed essays on photography to The Photographer's Playbook, Aperture 2014, and Photo No-Nos, Aperture 2021. Mickey has been teaching at the International Center of Photography since 2001 and taught photography at The Cooper Union School of Art from 2004 - 2016.  
As a musician Mickey has performed, recorded, and released records with several experimental rock bands over the years. His current musical collaboration with his partner, Kaori Nakamura is the duo, Broken Telepathy. Their self-titled debut was released by Sophomore Lounge Records in 2024.