Bright Lights Dark City: Art catalogue for an exhibition celebrating Niagara Custom Lab

Acme was commissioned by curator Kate Addleman-Frankel and the Working Image Collective to design the catalogue for Bright Lights Dark City: Niagara Custom Lab and Toronto Experimental Film a feature exhibition in the 2015 Contact Photography Festival. Bright Lights Dark City explores the anarchic spaces of Niagara Custom Lab and the remarkable local culture it encourages, embodies, and sustains. The book brings together nine artists, both emerging and established, whose documentary and conceptual work showcases the significance of the lab to diverse projects and practices.

With work by Michael Barker, Carl E. Brown, Sylvain Chausée, Kelly Egan, R. Bruce Elder, Elisa Julia Gilmour, John Porter, John Price, and Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof.

A roll of tape with the words "Exposed Film" sits on top of four copies of the exhibition catalogue "Bright Lights Dark City"
Bright Lights Dark City
Interior spread from the book Bright Lights Dark City
Interior spread from the book Bright Lights Dark City
Bright Lights Dark City
Detail of interior spread from the book Bright Lights Dark City
Bright Lights Dark City
Bright Lights Dark City
Interior spread from the book Bright Lights Dark City
Interior spread from the book Bright Lights Dark City
Interior spread from the book Bright Lights Dark City
A view of the front and back cover of the exhibition catalogue for "Bright Lights Dark City"

Edited by Kate Addleman-Frankel

Paperback 48pgs + 4pg cover / 32 plates
6 × 9 × 3/16 in
Published by Working Images Collective, 2015
Printed by Andora Graphics