Cloud Watching

• Photographer
  Daura Campos
• Technical Info
  35mm Film, Bleach, Water
• Photo Date
  2023-2024

Cloud Watching explores what happens when photography "fails," producing abstract, fragmented images that challenge our expectations of how photos preserve memory and truth. I collected discarded negatives from Brazil, Portugal, France, Turkey, Japan, and Morocco—sourced through flea markets, online exchanges, and lab collaborations. By partially removing their emulsion, I reveal new narratives. As we scroll endlessly through digital content, this project asks us to slow down and find meaning—like seeing shapes in clouds—in the unfamiliar and the forgotten.

Daura Campos is a photographer based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Her artistic practice investigates social issues through experimental photographic techniques, treating analog film as an active, reactive medium to spark dialogue about photography and its role in society. She has exhibited at the CICA Museum (South Korea), MK Gallery (England), Rotterdam Photo (Netherlands), Pinakothek der Moderne (Germany), Museum of Art of Pereira (Colombia), Gallery 44 (Canada), and Open Eye Gallery (England), among others.