Around 2005, Michel Campeau, sensitive to the digital shift, undertook to
photographing darkrooms, these laboratories which constitute the
foundations of a disappearing silver photography. At the same time,
He collects vernacular photography and continues his creative work in
through the photography of others, constituting collections of photographs
anonymous or from funds that he finds on the Internet or during his travels.
He thus points out how the triumphant digital era is characterized by the
disinterest in snapshots, press and studio photographs,
family albums, slides..., which are thrown away and destroyed
most often. In this book he carries out a kind of temporal montage
from these documents, many of which are already untraceable. He mixes his own
photographs to those he appropriates, constituting a history of the
film photography while weaving his own photographic autobiography.
