Darkroom By Michel Campeau

EXHIBITION: A collaboration between Arnos Vale Cemetery and the Martin Parr Foundation, Michel Campeau: Darkroom (2005-2006) presents the artist's evocative photographs of analogue darkrooms, exploring the mortality of photography through the unique setting of the Anglican Chapel Crypt. Darkroom by Michel Campeau reflects on the mortality of the photographic medium through intimate depictions of analogue darkrooms. The works presented here are drawn from the original book of the same title, published by Nazraeli Press as part of a series edited by Martin Parr. This exhibition marks Michel Campeau's first solo exhibition in the UK. Through this display in the Anglican Chapel Crypt at Arnos Vale Cemetery, Campeau's photographs show darkroom spaces as haphazard or obsolete in the face of digital technologies, whilst also revealing them as personal, human environments marked by improvised adaptations and DIY interventions giving them a fragile, idiosyncratic presence.