This listing is as complete as can be determined from the records we have available at the moment. If you are able to fill in any of the gaps or suggest corrections, please get in touch.
| Show Title | Photographer(s) | Date | Comment |
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1984 |
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| Autographs | Group show | 21 January – 12 February | Gallery opening show |
| Webb & Gissing | Penelope Webb, Nicola Gissing | 18 February – 4 March | Individual photographers’ work |
| Tabecki & Hammans | Chris Tabecki , Roy Hammans | 7 March – 25 March | Individual photographers’ work |
| Roger Palmer | Roger Palmer | 31 March – 25 April | Individual photographers’ work |
| Mother of Churches | John Stathatos | 29 April – 13 May | Individual photographers’ work |
| Hockney’s Photographs | David Hockney | 19 May- 24 June | Arts Council touring exhibition |
| Recent British Video | Group show | 26 June – 8 July | |
| Cambridge Architecture | Tim Rawle | 14 July – 12 August | Individual photographers’ work; Cambridge Festival exhibition |
| Doisneau/Sander | Robert Doisneau, August Sander | 18 August – 16 September | Individual photographers’ work; Side gallery exhibitions |
| Sky Show | Group show | 21 September – 28 October | Cambridge Darkroom exhibition |
| Sequences | Group show | 3 November – 9 December | First Darkroom Open Show |
| Joseph Koudelka | 15 December – 3 February 1985 | Individual photographers’ work; Arts Council exhibition | |
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1985 |
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| Mario Giacomelli – A Retrospective 1955-1983 | Mario Giacomelli | 10 February – 10 March | Individual photographers’ work; Ffotogallery exhibition |
| Jo Spence – Review of Work 1950 -1985 | Jo Spence | 15 March – 14 April | Individual photographers’ work; Cambridge Darkroom exhibition |
| Marco de Valdiva – Recent Still Life | Marco de Valdiva | 20 April – 9 May | Individual photographers’ work |
| Angus Mc Bean & Paul Tanqueray | Angus Mc Bean & Paul Tanqueray | 12 May – 6 June | Individual photographers’ work; Plymouth Arts Centre exhibition |
| Night Shots; Night Sisters | Hannah Collins & Julia James | 14 June – 7 July | Individual photographers’ work |
| Portraits | Fay Godwin | 14 June – 7 July | Individual photographers’ work; Cambridge Poetry Festival Exhibition |
| Revisions | Group show | 13 July – 25 August | Cambridge Darkroom Exhibition for Cambridge Festival |
| Duane Michals 1958 – 1984 | Duane Michals | 14 September – 13 October | Individual photographer’s work |
| Experimental Film | Group show | 19 October – 30 November | |
| AONB; Up to Date; Tintern Portraits | Keith Arnatt, David Hurn, Sue Packer | 23 November – 15 December | Individual photographers’ work |
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1986 |
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| Fen Archive | Group show | 11 January – 23 February | Cambridgeshire historical work |
| Art Classes | Michael Walker | 28 January – 23 February | Individual photographers’ work |
| next:tomorrow | Group show | 2 March – 6 April | Joint show with Kettle’s Yard |
| Imposters | Group show | 12 April – 18 May | Interim Art exhibition |
| Between the Lines | Edwina Fitzpatrick | 12 April – 18 May | Individual photographers’ work |
| Multiple Vision | Group show | 24 May – 29 June | Selected by Pavel Buchler |
| Man-Hours of Preparation | Rebecca Haines | 24 May – 29 June | Individual photographers’ work |
| CCAT Print School Show | Group show | 2-8 July | End of year student show |
| Boundaries | Group show | 12 July – 21 August | Exhibition of landscape photography |
| The Cordoned Heart
David Goldblatt, Photographs 1949-85 |
Group show
David Goldblatt |
31 March – 25 April | Group and individual photographers’ work |
| Tierra Y Libertad! | Casasola Archive | 18 October – 30 November | Mexico 1900-1935 |
| No Pasaran! | Group show | 6 December – 25 January 1987 | Photographs and posters of Spanish Civil War |
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1987 |
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| Bursary Exhibition | Group show | 31 January – 22 February | Darkroom/Eastern Arts Bursary work |
| Remains of the Authentic | Group show | 28 February – 29 March | German photographic art of the eighties |
| Museology Photographs
That’s Not Entirely True |
Richard Ross
Macduff Everton |
4 April – 10 May | Individual photographers’ work |
| Figures | Group show | 16 May – 22 June | Individual photographers’ work and performance art |
| Bernard Faucon | Bernard Faucon | 11 July – 23 August | Individual photographers’ work |
| Precious Metals | Roger Palmer | 12 September – 18 October | 10 phototriptychs |
| Let us Now Praise Famous Women | Group show | 24 October -22 November | Archive material including FSA and OWI |
| A Fleeting Moment | Andrea Fisher | 28 November – 13 December | An installation by the artist |
| Christmas Selling Show and Auction | Various | 15-23 December | Work donated to Darkroom |
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1988 |
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| Georges Rousse | Georges Rousse | 9 January – 14 February | Arnolfini/Third Eye/Galerie Farideh Cadot show |
| Patrick Tosani | Patrick Tosani | 18 February 13 March | Individual photographers’ work |
| Short Exhibition by Six Photographers | Group show | 19 – 27 March | Darkroom members and local artists |
| Death | Group show | 2 April – 15 May | Cambridge Darkroom & Kettle’s Yard Joint Open Exhibition |
| Craigie Horsfield | Craigie Horsfield | 21 May – 19 June | Individual photographers’ work |
| CCAT Print School & CCAT Sculpture and Painting | Group show | 22 – 26 June & 29 June – 3 July | End of year student show |
| Animal Locomotion | Eadweard Muybridge | 16 July – 21 August | Individual photographers’ work |
| Before Ground Zero | Jack Hubble | 16 July – 21 August | Hubble was recipient of Cambridge Darkroom/Eastern Arts 1987 Bursary |
| Elsewhere | Group show | 3 September – 9 October | Photo-based work from Australia |
| Terezin | John Gotto | 15 October – 20 November | Individual photographers’ work |
| Seven Photographers from East Anglia | Group show | 26 November – 18 December | Eastern Arts/Cambridge Darkroom Bursary Exhibition |
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1989 |
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| Marysia Lewandowska & Helen Underwood | Marysia Lewandowska & Helen Underwood | 19 January – 19 February | Two installations |
| Untitled Portraits | Pavel Buchler | 25 February – 2 April | Individual artists’ work |
| Simon Crump & Tracey Holland | Simon Crump & Tracey Holland | 12 April – 14 May | Joint show |
| Alphabet | Ginny Farman & Ginny Munden | 12 April – 14 May | Project from Brighton Womens’ Festival |
| CCAT Print School & CCAT Sculpture and Painting | Group show | 17-12 May & 24-18 May | Student show |
| Christine Webster & Lizzie Calligas | Christine Webster & Lizzie Calligas | 3 June – 9 July | Joint show |
| Love Scenes | Andrew Wiener | 3 June – 9 July | Individual artists’ work |
| French Show – Shadow of a Dream | Group show | 15 July – 20 August | Cambridge Festival show |
| Photography in the Weimar Republic | Historical/archive show | 2 September – 1 October | Exhibition toured by Goethe-Institut |
| Shifting Focus | Group show | 7 October -12 November | Joint show with Kettle’s Yard |
| Other Than Itself | Group show | 18 November – 13 December | Camerawork touring exhibition |
| Colin Shone | Colin Shone | 18 November – 13 December | Individual photographers’ work |
| Christmas Selling Show | Various | 16 – 22 December | Work donated to Darkroom |
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1990 |
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| Bursary Exhibition | Group show | 13 January – 18 February | Darkroom/Eastern Arts Bursary |
| Keith Arnatt | Keith Arnatt | 24 February – 1 April | Individual photographers’ work |
| Keepers of Light | David Ward | 7 April – 13 May | Mappin Gallery commission |
| Anglia Polytechnic 90 | Group show | 17 – 27 May | Student artwork |
| From Moment to Moment | Group show | 3 June – 8 July | Darkroom organised show |
| Steep | Imogen Stidworthy | 10 – 11 July | Tape slide installation |
| Il Maestro | Carlo Bevilacqua | 14 July – 5 August | Cambridge Festival exhibition |
| Four Portraits | Toby Glanville | 14 July – 5 August | Individual photographers’ work |
| A Practical Art | Group show | 1 – 19 August | Architects” drawings and models |
| Questioning the Image | Peter Bryanston-Cross | 1 – 7 September | Holographic imagery |
| Bauhaus Photography | Group show | 8 September – 14 October | Exhibition toured by Goethe-Institut |
| Gallery closed for refurbishment | 15 October – 9 November | ||
| From a Castle Garden | Alena Hanslova | 3 November – 8 December | Individual photographers’ work |
| Post-Morality | Group show | 10 November – 6 January 1991 | Joint Darkroom/Kettle’s Yard show |
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1991 |
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| David Ward | David Ward | 12 – 18 January | Exhibition to open residency |
| Waterbeach FC: A Game of Three Halves | Martin Figura | 26 January – 24 February | Individual photographers’ work |
| Bursary Show 1991 | Group Show | 26 January – 24 February | Darkroom/Eastern Arts Bursary |
| Intimate Distance | Group Show | 2 – 31 March | Photographers’ Gallery touring show |
| Early Days | Mandy Harman | 6 April – 12 May | Individual photographers’ work |
| Three Heraclitean Elements | John Stathatos | 7 April – 12 May | Individual photographers’ work |
| New Work | AHEC sculpture and painting students | 14 – 19 May | Week long residency |
| Landing Light | Group show | 18 May – 16 June | Three darkroom members |
| Double Interior Part 4 | Fran Cottell | 21 May – 2 June | Individual artists’ work |
| Convergence | Imogen Stidworthy | 4 – 23 June | Individual artists’ work |
| Seeing and Believing | Group show | 22 June – 14 July | Results from documentary workshop |
| La Riviera de Charles Negres | Charles Negres | 29 June – 28 July | French Cultural Delegation sponsored |
| Andrez Borkovski | Andrez Borkovski | 28 June – 28 July | Stairway installation |
| Young peoples’ animation, film and book projects | August | ||
| In Camera | Group show | 5 – 15 September | Work from recent Darkroom projects and workshops |
| Stolen Glances | Group show | 21 September – 27 October | ‘Lesbians Take Photographs’ |
| Silent Health: Women, Health and Representation
The Mind Betrays the Body Be Meek! Have No Opinion! Talk Prejudice! |
Group show
Susan Brind
Susan Taylor |
5 November – 5 January | Focus on womens’ issues |
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1992 |
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| A Mass of Figures | Jim Harold | 18 January – 1 March | Individual photographer’ work |
| How Do Women Walk?
Observances, Absent and Present |
Elspeth Owen
Kirsten Lavers & Kevin Weaver |
14 March – 12 April | Bursary Artists’ Awards 1992 |
| Step | Richard Heeps | 14 March – 12 April | Individual photographer’ work |
| Suspended States | Susan Trangmar | 25 April – 31 May | Individual photographer’ work |
| New Work | Margaret Lill | 25 April – 31 May | Individual photographer’ work |
| Site Work | Group show | 6 June – 19 July | Architecture and photography since early modernism |
| Babel | Philip Courtney | 6 June – 19 July | Shown at Central Library |
| Beyond Landscape | John Blakemore | 25 July – 6 September | Retrospective show |
| Essex Wo/man | Charlotte Raven & David Ashwell | 25 July – 6 September | Focal Point Gallery exhibition |
| Power and Providence: Iconography of the Hospital | Group show | 18 September – 7 November | Photo based work and health issues |
| Oxfam 50: Our World in Photographs | Group show | 18 September – 7 November | Oxfam travelling show |
| Award show | Group show | 14 November – 3 January 1993 | New regional Artists’ Awards |
| Student work | Group show | 14 November – 3 January 1993 (?) | Selected by Sharon Kivland |
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1993 |
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| Women Behind the Camera | Garry Fabian Miller | 10 January – 28 February | Travelling show |
| Student work | Group show | 10 January – 28 February | Selected by Yve Lomax |
| Desert Work | Walter Cotten & Steve Pinto | 7 March -18 April | Work of two photographers |
| Fata Scribunda | Sharon Kivland & Cheryl Sourkes | 24 April – 25 July | ‘The goddesses who wrote down a man’s destiny at his birth’ |
| Burner | Stewart Wilson | 12 June – 25 July | Video installation |
| Goddesses and Others | Madame Yevonde | 31 July – 29 August | Retrospective of portrait work |
| Not available | September – December | ||
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1994 |
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| Not available | January – December | ||
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1995 |
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| Suffolk Family | Simon Watson | April | Cambridge Darkroom Bursary |
| Not available | January – March; May – December | ||
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1996 |
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| Distant Relations | Roy Mehta | Spring – Summer | Individual photographer’ work |
| Douglas Brothers | Douglas Brothers | Autumn – Winter | Individual photographer’ work |
| After the Sublime | Yve Lomax | Autumn – Winter | Individual photographer’ work |
| Not available | Other months | ||
