Translations

‘Translations’ is a series of 8 functional objects designed by Don Cameron in response to his photographic ‘slow project’ ‘Communion’—a 20 year personal body of work that has sat alongside his career path from film director to designer.

"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."

"Now Cameron has taken another step and used his photographs as the point of departure to design a furniture collection."

"Cameron has worked to translate the atmosphere his images have captured from one medium into another, he looks for ways to achieve the effects of surface patina and form that he found in his photographs, from one category to another. A building is translated into a photograph, which in turn becomes an object. Design, architecture and sculpture merge imperceptibly one into another."

Excerpts ‘Translations’ essay by Deyan Sudjic

Don Cameron is an Australian designer. Graduating from Central St Martins College of Art, London with 1st Class Honors, his career began as a director of music videos, creating era defining works for British artists Pet Shop Boys, Garbage and Blur.
In 2010 Cameron began to explore the disciplines of design and interior architecture, arriving at a unique language that approached the comprehensive design of interiors with a film vocabulary—endowing spaces with a strong emotional and scenographic quality.
Since 2020 Cameron has exhibited works through contemporary design and art focused gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney.