DARREN CAMPION
Assistant Curator (Photo Museum Ireland, Dublin, IE)
Darren Campion is Assistant 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 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 around 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 artist's monographs, including Thomas Albdorf, 'General View' (Skinnerboox, 2017) and Aapo Huhta’s 'Omatandangole', (Kehrer Verlag, 2019). In 2024 he will curate a new survey exhibition at Photo Museum Ireland looking at contemporary perspectives on the body in photography.