Reading Time: 4 minutes Jon Pountney shares images and reflections from lockdown in Treforest, a village near Pontypridd, southern Wales
Tag: Wales
Reading Time: 5 minutes Sophy Rickett’s latest project delves into the life and work of Thereza Dillwyn Llewelyn, a little-known Victorian artist and astronomer, who lived in Wales
Reading Time: 3 minutes In his latest book, Gap in the Hedge, Dan Wood looks at how a place affects the way you see the world around you, how it can open your mind to new vistas, create spaces for your imagination to run wild, and make an identity that is rooted in the landscape in ways that can be expanding or limiting.
The title refers to Bwlch-y-Clawdd, the mountain pass that joins Bridgend to the former mining communities of the Rhondda Valley. Built in 1928, the road was Wales’ biggest construction project at the time, intended to lift the Rhondda out of its over-reliance on coal mining. And it was some reliance. At its coal-mining peak, South Wales produced one third of global coal exports, with large numbers of migrants moving in to mine the coal, making it a surprisingly diverse community for a place that is still regarded as quintessentially Welsh.
Reading Time: 9 minutes Portrait of Britain returns for a second year with 100 more images that encapsulate life the length and breadth of the UK. From almost 8,000 entries this year, the final hundred will now be displayed in a digital exhibition across JCDecaux screens in shopping centres and commuter hubs around the country throughout September. In partnership with Nikon, the photography giant, Portrait of Britain aims to show the social and cultural diversity of people in the UK and showcase everyday citizens and unsung heroes in a gallery of the people, by the people, for the people. Simon Bainbridge, Editorial Director at the British Journal of Photography, was excited about the latest portraits for 2017, saying, “Collectively, the portraits celebrate the unique heritage and diversity of modern Britain, as much as its thriving photography culture and the myriad styles and approaches they employ in their work.”
Reading Time: 3 minutes In his latest exhibition, David Barnes explores community and social identity in South Wales –…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Portrait of Britain is inviting photographers to submit images that reflect the unique heritage and diversity…
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Diffusion, the international photography biennale organised by Cardiff’s Ffotogallery is currently in full swing, hosting…
Reading Time: 3 minutes While Scotland has formed a modern sense of civic nationalism and England publicly grapples with…
Reading Time: 7 minutes I was in Ken Grant’s MA class when he was teaching Documentary Photography at Newport…