Dawn Renee Darnell

Awards:

2025 - TITAN WOMEN IN BUSINESS AWARDS - Outstanding Female in Photography

2025 - TITAN BUSINESS AWARDS - Achievement

2025 - MASTERFUL MIND AWARD - Circle Foundation for the Arts

2025 - TOP 5 INSPIRATIONAL FEMALE ICONS TO FOLLOW IN 2025 - Magnate View

2025 - TOP 5 EXCEPTIONAL LEADERS TO FOLLOW IN 2025 - Magnate View

2025 - TOP AUTHOR - IAOTP

2025 - PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR - IAOTP

2024 - WOMAN OF THE YEAR - Top 100 Registry

2024 - PHILANTHROPY AWARD - Communitas Awards - Community Service - “Funding the Ministry in Ivory Coast, Africa”

2024 - HERMES CREATIVE AWARDS - Logos (2x)

2024 - LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD - Photography - Top 100

2023 - COMMUNICATOR AWARD - “F.A.C.E. of HOPE” video

2023 - ARTIST OF THE YEAR - Persons of the Year

2023 - PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR - Persons of the Year

2022 - AVA DIGITAL AWARD - Book Cover

2022 - BEST OF THE BEST - Photography Award - “Elsa on the Horizon”

2021 - BEST OF THE BEST - Photography Award - “Tiny Spider”

Plus:

2022 - 2024 - 98 International Book Awards-Setting a world record for the most book awards ever by an Author in History!

2022 - 2025 - 68 International Photography Awards

Member of:

The Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA), member and Juror, she judges the Communicator, Davey, and w3 awards

International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP)

Honored in: 

Magnate View (2x)

Masterful Mind Magazine

Who’s Who in America

Marquis Top Professional

The Millennium Magazine

Artist Closeup Magazine and Blog

The Top 100 Magazine

Write-up published on ABC, CBS, FOX

Mrs. Darnell has had art exhibits at Art Basel-Miami, Florida; Basel, Switzerland; at Expo Metro in New York Times Square; Art Basel Miami; Barcelona, Spain; New York Pier 36; in Red Dot Miami and Spectrum Miami; and in galleries in Zug, Zurich, and Geneva Switzerland; Venice, Italy; Berlin, Germany; Palma, Spain; Athens, Greece; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Milan, Italy; and in the United States. 

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Dawn Renee is a globally recognized photographer. Dawn Renee's images have been published on National Geographic and Smithsonian's website, and in calendars, in books, on book covers, in yearbooks, newspapers, advertisements, zoos, KOA pamphlets, sympathy cards, business cards, websites, used as logos, and sold in Galleries.

She has been a board member for five organizations, a New Mexico Delegate, a campaign manager for U.S. Congress, and a Loan Signing New Mexico Notary. She was a private Montessori teacher for 21 years and a Montessori principal. Mrs. Darnell was also an after-school Director (Montessori) for 8 years, a houseparent, a Special Olympics Coach, a volunteer coordinator overseeing 200+ volunteers, and a Certified Trauma-Informed Coach.

Mrs. Darnell is working on her natural skincare company, Hollyn Renee Skincare, and a coffee bean company, J. Hopkins’ Coffee Mill.

​Dawn Renee and her husband Jim have a ministry in the Ivory Coast, West Africa, supplying French Bibles, musical instruments, building churches and homes for pastors, and paying for seminary tuition, weddings, and funerals. She is an Ordained Minister and a disaster relief chaplain.