Negative Dark Chamber

Bowness Prize | Poeples Choice award 2024

Paper Negative Exposure 2023 , Unique state Print 2525 x 6060 CM

Negative Dark Chamber’ 2023

Dark Chamber was constructed inside the Centre of Contemporary Photography Melbourne in 2023, with its dioptre facing west framing the Marquis of Lorne Pub Fitzroy.

The exposure was made with 50 sheets of Photographic Paper each measuring 61 x 50.8cm, meticulously hung in the darkness producing a paper negative image of Dark Chambers perspective.

For Renato Colangelo the Camera Obscura lives in a dream like state, a womb, gracious and poetic; harnessing the beauty of a moving image combined with the reaffirmation of memory.

An instant sub-conscious almost primal relationship comes with standing inside a Camera Obscura & Negative Dark Chamber’s darkness & mood recreates the magic of this ephemeral moment.

The production of Negative Dark Chamber was supported by Ilford Australia.