Communion 2020

Don Cameron’s photographic explorations of some of the darker traces of Europe’s recent past are carefully emptied of the historic context that could give them a specific meaning but they are full of suggestive atmospheric effects that make us want to speculate about how these extraordinary objects came to be made.

Cameron has spent almost 20 years exploring these enigmatic objects. They have very different histories but he presents them in the same format. They are all careful monochrome compositions that required a considerable amount of time and effort to achieve since most are in places that are difficult to reach. He has mounted his images in purpose-designed patinated brass frames that give them something more like the character of an object than that of a work on paper. Its not hard to see why these monuments would attract Cameron’s interest. He is an artist whose work defies easy categorisation and so do they.

Deyan Sudjic