Standalone Essays on contemporary photography in and beyond Wales written by photographers and professionals in the field of photography.
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**Note: Essays 1-4 and 6 are only available as a bundle to clear very limited stock.**

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7. 'Bargoed' to Bargoed
Written by Ian Walker
‘Bargoed’ to Bargoed tells the fascinating story of landscape work made in south Wales by artist L.S. Lowry on his visits to the mining area of Bargoed, along with photography writer and educator Ian Walker’s own history with the area, past and present.
A4 / 16 pages / colour
£5.00

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6. Home: In another Land
Written by Glenn Edwards
Newport-based photojournalist Glenn Edwards has had a long association with and love of Africa and the populations of the continent’s many nations from the start of his career.

‘Home: In another land’ recounts the story of bringing one recent and ongoing photography project in which he documents the African community in and around Wales - from concept through to the first of what would eventually be several exhibitions, and the experience of negotiating the politics of contemporary curators and galleries showing black lives photographed by white photographers.
A4 / 4 pages / colour

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5. HIRAEL
Written by Gary Stuart
HIRAEL tells the story of the late Gary Stuart’s entry into photography whilst living and working in Bangor, North Wales in the early 1970s prior to his move to England and a long and successful career as a professional photographer.

Published by Café Royal Books in late 2021 as ‘Hirael, North Wales – 1976’, Stuart’s sensitive images document a proud but small and disappearing community on the edge of Bangor and a unique record of a time and place?
A4 / 8 pages / mono
£5.00

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4. ffotoview - an overview
Written by Robert Greetham

Written for Offline Journal by Robert Greetham - an early Director of Ffotogallery in the 1980's. This fascinating essay tells the story of Wales' first printed Journal on photography by its Editor.

Published over twelve issues between 1982-1985, ffotoview originated from a simple 4-page Newsletter and developed into a quarterly magazine offering updates on not just Ffotogallery's activities but the wider photography scene and culture at a time when photography galleries were emerging across the UK.
A4 / 4 pages / mono

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3. Sites of struggle and photography
Written by Paul Cabuts

In 'Sites of struggle and photography', Paul Cabuts discusses the use of photographs to highlight hardship and distress; and also explore their ongoing relationship to the storyof photography and Wales.

This new essay includes discussions on Jim Mortram’s 'Small Town Inertia' and Dan Wood’s 'Pove the Great'. It considers earlier work by others, and addresses questions around photography that include: a) can photographs pictorially depict distress or is additional evidence essential?; b) who are such photographic works for?; and c) how can photographs of distress change anything?
A4 / 4 pages / mono

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2. Gap in the Hedge (after Dan Wood)
Written by Siôn Tomos Owen

A unique poem written by Valleys artist Siôn Tomos Owen over four pages that narrates Dan Wood’s '‘Gap in the Hedge’ images as shown on his website.

Specially written to accompany a limited edition exhibition poster produced for Dan Wood’s ‘Gap in the Hedge’ exhibition shown at the 2019 Northern EYE Photography Festival in Colwyn Bay, North Wales.
A4 / 4 pages / mono

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1. The Daniel Meadows Archive in nine people
Written by Daniel Meadows

With his important photography archive now held in the prestigious Bodleian Library in Oxford and his ‘Now and Then’ retrospective exhibition and book of the same name launched in October 2019, acclaimed documentarian Daniel Meadows has written the first Offline Essay on the theme of the photographic archive - using himself as a unique case study.

It’s an insightful and, in places, moving piece that all photographers who consider their work of some value – culturally and/or monetary – in the long-term should read more than once!
A4 / 4 pages / mono