The Darkness of Enlightenment is a daguerreotype series that explores 19th century European recordings of Kaurna language and culture during the British colonisation of the Kaurna nation in South Australia. This daguerreotype series presents images of the places that were sites of the first contact between European Whalers, British Colonists and Kaurna people. It attempts to highlight the mistakes, mistranslations and loss of knowledge in the social documentation of Kaurna culture by European colonists.