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Y CAE / THE FIELD is an ongoing series of exhibitions curated by Valley Ffocws art collective in collaboration with the Ynysybwl Regeneration Partnership (YRP) on the subject of the former Lady Windsor Colliery site, a few miles north of Pontypridd. Each exhibitor will take over the six presentation boards located along the the Windsor Trail for two months, host a shared community event and create a publication available from the YRP office.The common focus is the site of the Lady Windsor Colliery and its future. Each contributor brings their own expertise, including photography, industrial archaeology, social history, illustration & storytelling, fine art, ecology and surveying. The aim is to both inform and stimulate given the backdrop of the site’s industrial life between 1886 and 1988 and provoke fresh ideas in the context of today’s challenges; in particular, climate emergency.




























































































































Dr Steven Murray has been recording the Lady Windsor Colliery site for 14 years and finds a mosaic of biodiversity, an accidental haven for wildlife at a small scale. His macro photographic landscapes across this tapestry of habitats are displayed much enlarged, but the originals can still be spotted by the naked eye. Steven works as a Science Teacher in Beddau.
Listen to Steven discussing his work and images for this project below…
























































































































































































































































“Valley Ffocws is a multi-disciplined, inclusive creative collective making innovative work in and on the Valleys. Outcomes can take any number of forms, but activism and change lie at the heart of its endeavour. This shifting collective invites creativity beyond the traditional arts”

— Julie Cook, Valley Ffocws founder




You can follow the Valley Ffocws collective and their progress on Twitter @valleyffocws2Or contact Julie Cook at: juliecook1@icloud.com






























Original Valley Ffocws piece shared here in Ffoton News on 12 March 2021

Ffoton's Brian Carroll talks with Anglesey-based photographer Adrian Cann about the launch of his new virtual gallery website www.eyelevelgallery.co.uk and what it can offer photographers in and beyond Wales. The Gallery website launches with an exhibition of work by photographer Philip Butler titled 'Small Hours' - inspired by the 1977 John Martyn song of the same name.
Small Hours is a collection of photographs produced to document the peaceful cinematic atmosphere that isolated points of artificial light create after the sun has set. Captured in and around his small hometown of Malvern, Butler wandered the streets after dark searching for inspiration. The work was published as a photobook in late 2020 by Art Deco Magpie (ADM) Publishing. Audio © 2021 Ffoton

 


























































































 


In this exclusive first interview with its four members, Ffoton explores the project behind Wales’ new photographer Collective - collaborating to documentthe impact of Brexit on people across Wales.Ffoton’s Emyr Young talks with DocCymru photographers Rhodri Jones, Kristina Banholzer, Roger Tiley and Glenn Edwards about their new documentary project in Wales and what it aims to achieve over the next three years.

































Follow the photographers and development of the project on Twitter @DocCymru24



























© 2021 Ffoton

Ffoton joined Newport-based photographer John Briggs for a special event in Cardiff on Saturday 9 November to launch ‘Walking Cardiff’ - a new book he collaborated on with author and poet Peter Finch and published by Seren Books.









































































































l-r: photographer John Briggs, writer Peter Finch, and event Chair - novelist and literary critic Grahame Davies






































“Walking Cardiff is a new book published by Seren and brings together twenty walks around the bustling capital of Wales in a guide that visits the new and the ancient, the difficult, the undiscovered, the lesser-knowns, the artistic, the entertaining, the quirky and the unexpected - uncovering Cardiff past and present for all to enjoy.”

— Seren Books






















































































The authors describing some of the more interesting walks around Cardiff. Image © Brian Carroll



































































































The animated Peter Finch describing the ‘psychic centre’ of Cardiff with photographer John Briggs capturing the moment. Image © Brian Carroll

















To mark the launch of the new book, Seren hosted a free event in Jurys Hotel in Cardiff bringing together author Peter Finch and photographer John Briggs in conversation with Grahame Davies.
Our thanks to the authors and Seren Books for agreeing to record the event.

































You can find out more about the book on Seren’s website - www.serenbooks.com

Photographer James Morris talking about his work made in Palestine and exhibited in Ffotogaleri y Gofeb in Machynlleth 11 June - 5 October 2019.
Joining Peter for this special talk on was Irish poet Damian Gorman who discussed his own time in Palestine and read some of his own work on the day.

Ffotogallery celebrated the opening of their new home on Fanny Street in the Cathays area of Cardiff on the evening of Wednesday 11 September 2019.If you didn’t have an invite, you’ll have missed the opening speeches by new Chair of their Board of Trustees Mathew Talfan and current Director David Drake. So we recorded it for posterity.
Congratulations to the Ffotogallery team on securing a home and new gallery space - and for the initial refurbishment efforts to create an immediately useable gallery and library space.
“The beginning of a new chapter…”
Ffoton believes it important that all photographers in Wales have a listen and keep track of actual delivery on the many aspirational goals mentioned in the recording since, in their own words…“Ffotogallery is the national development agency for photography and lens-based media in Wales”.This self-ascribed title attracts £199,472.00 of Welsh Government public funding via Arts Council Wales* - so it’s important that photographers across Wales share in the benefits of this funding annually.
Pay attention folks.
*source: latest Ffotogallery Accounts to 31 March 2018 on Charity Commission website (worth a read)






















































“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs.
When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”

— Ansel Adams