DARREN CAMPION

Curator
Photo Museum Ireland (Ireland)

Darren Campion is Curator at Photo Museum Ireland. In 2022 he co-curated two major surveys of contemporary Irish photography, The Politics of Place, and Photography & the Social Gaze. With Trish Lambe, Artistic Director, Photo Museum Ireland, he co-curated No Place Like Home: The Domestic in Irish Photography, surveying recent photographic representations of home in Ireland. He has also written extensively about contemporary photographic practices, particularly on visual narrative, and the photobook. He has contributed to international publications and websites, including FOAM, Paper Journal, YET magazine, Photomonitor, and the Irish Arts Review, as well as essays and texts for several artists’ monographs, including Thomas Albdorf, General View (Skinnerboox, 2017) and Aapo Huhta’s Omatandangole, (Kehrer Verlag, 2019). In 2024 he curated Skin / Deep: Perspectives on the Body, a survey exhibition considering experiences of the body through photography and lens-based media. Upcoming projects include The Forbidden Sun, a major new solo exhibition by Robert Ellis, co-curated with Trish Lambe, and Afterimage: Photography in the Digital Age, a Photo Museum Ireland national touring exhibition, with partners The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, and Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, supported by the Arts Council.

Spoken Languages: English

Website: www.photomuseumireland.ie