Tag: photography
Anna Falcini’s In Between the Folds Are Particles, Aberystwyth Arts Centre
The genesis of Anna Falcini’s In Between the Folds Are Particles was her research into Gwen John’s letters and diaries as part of a residency at the A …
Read moreSkomer Island: Its History and Natural History
A botanist visiting Skomer in the early twentieth century described it as a ‘bird slum’. Certainly, the tiny lump of volcanic rock off the Pembrokeshi …
Read moreReflections: Preview of the photography book, Form
A night class at the old school on top of Stow Hill in Trefforest would prove decisive. I had already experienced years of taking photographs, learnin …
Read morePier Closing Time
There is no such thing as realism. Photographers might choose to capture the gritty, the depressing, the down at heel, but they do so by selection, by …
Read moreGreen in Black
As a tribute to Cecily Tyson, who died on 28 January 2021, we re-publish this article from New Welsh Review 86, winter 2009. The year 2009 has seen a …
Read moreSouth Wales Monuments and Transmissions, 1996–2004 and Not Still: Rhondda Photographs, by Paul Cabuts
Not Still, the title of Paul Cabuts’s stunning collection of images of the Rhondda Valley, comes from Border Country, Raymond Williams’ classic novel …
Read moreThe Hare Book and The Hedgehog Book
In an essay in the current issue of New Welsh Reader [Issue 124], I confessed to my obsession with hares. And I drew on Jane Russ’ The Hare Book for i …
Read moreSuicide Machine
It’s just over a decade since I first met the photographer Dan Wood. I was gathering footage for a student film about creativity in our hometown, Brid …
Read moreA Fold in the River by Philip Gross & Valerie Coffin Price
It is unusual for me to pick up a collection of poems and find myself halfway through experiencing the same reluctance to put it down as I would with …
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