A GUIDE TO INNER LIGHT is a solo photography exhibition by Canadian media artist Mark Templeton. The series features a collection of Risograph prints, constructed from a discarded box of slides and 1970s and 80s meditation cassettes discovered in a library.
In this body of work, Templeton explores the “bridge of imaginary light” between the ears and the eyes. As noted by photographer Mike Slack:
“Somewhere in a dark room a bright cone of photons connects a slide projector to a wall… One thought overtakes another as the carousel clicks forward, shuffles… We hear the inner light before we see it. The ears tell the eyes where to look, and the eyes look inward.”
By using the Risograph process, Templeton captures the “pink hue of mystery” inherent in these forgotten histories. The result is a series of images that feel like visions of a recent past, filtered through the dust motes and incandescent glow of a slide projector’s beam.
Originally published in 2026 as a photobook and limited-edition cassette under his Rev. LV moniker, this exhibition presents the visual core of Templeton’s latest project, inviting the viewer to puzzle together a fantasy from the remnants of a celluloid history.
Mark Templeton is a Canadian media artist who has been actively releasing albums and performing live for nearly twenty years. In the spring of 2018, he released his first photobook, Distorted Tourist, which included a series of five one-sided flexi disc records. In 2021, his photobook and cassette, Ocean Front Property, was co-published by The Ice Plant and Graphical, the latter which he established in 2015 as a platform for his audiovisual works. Ocean Front Property was one of the winners of the Belfast Photo Festival OPEN SUBMISSION Award, it was featured in France’s national newspaper Le Monde Magazine and was long listed for the RDS Visual Arts Awards. In 2026, Templeton released his third photobook and limited edition cassette, A GUIDE TO INNER LIGHT. Published under his Rev. LV moniker, the project was entirely assembled and constructed by Mark Templeton.
Templeton has performed live and exhibited his work at Belfast Photo Festival, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Unsound Festival, Mutek Festival, Send+Receive Festival, Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival, WNDX Festival and other festivals, art galleries and alternative spaces in Europe, the UK and North America. His photographs have been featured in Le Monde Magazine, GUP Magazine and American Suburb X.
In June of 2019, Mark completed an MFA in Photography, with distinction, through Ulster University in Belfast, Northern Ireland.