#101: Offline Journal Newsletter: 29 July '25
Final Newsletter - new version and website coming Friday 1st August!
Hello again
I trust you’re enjoying the recent warm—but very mixed—weather.
Here in Cardiff, things continue to heat up on the Offline desk as August fast approaches! This Offline Journal Newsletter, along with the offline.wales website, will be moving to a new server and relaunching 8pm this Friday, 1st August 2025.
New Subscription bundles for the printed Offline Journal along with online access to a newly designed Newsletter and online articles are now available from Offline’s online store (info below). My thanks again if you have already taken a new Subscription.
Photography exhibitions and events around Wales also continue to hot-up, judging by the ever-growing events listings here on the Newsletter!
(Some email providers will limit the size of messages going to your inbox, so if you find these newsletters truncated in your email, you might see a short message like "View entire message" allowing you to view the entire post in your email app. Alternatively, you can view this and all previous Newsletters online in a web browser from this Friday 1st August, at offline.wales with an active subscription).
Brian
NEW OFFLINE JOURNAL CHANGES
Come Friday evening this week, the Offline Journal email Newsletter will be changing, as will future printed materials, as announced in a previous Newsletter here.
There will continue to be a free but much shorter version of the Newsletter which will provide access to the popular and regularly updated Exhibitions & Events listings page, along with a short news post on a current event. All subscribers to the current Newsletter will receive future posts to their email inbox as normal, with the option to easily upgrade to a new low cost Newsletter/website Subscription at any time online should they wish to.
Supporters of Offline Journal can continue to purchase future printed journals as and when they are published (now in May of each year), but can now follow photography news and articles published more regularly on the new Newsletter and offline.wales website via a Newsletter/website Subscription option.
As this will also be available to international subscribers, Offline Journal’s reach—and sharing of news on photography developments in and around Wales—will now extend beyond the UK.
Alternatively, a more comprehensive mix of the Offline Journal print and online offerings can be had through one of two new Subscription Bundles (see 2 below).
The new Offline Journal offerings…
The new Offline Journal offerings - in print and online
CHAOS Project publication (Sept ‘24) : £14 + £4 P&P
Offline Journal #015 (May ‘25) : £19 + £4 P&P
Newsletter/website Subscription - £3 per month or £30 for 12 months
(Includes news and articles on photography developments around Wales and close to the border, selected articles from a new SIGNATURES series of posts with specific focus on photography self-publishing, photozines and photobooks).Newsletter/website Subscription Plus - £5 per month or £50 for 12 months
(Includes everything in the above Subscription option but with new Offline Essays as they are released, more in-depth articles, new select audio and video materials from interviews, plus all articles from a new SIGNATURES series on photography self-publishing, photozines, photobooks, and related events).Note: both of the above Newsletter/website subscriptions will be available directly from the new offline.wales website when it launches Friday 1 August 2025.
Subscription Bundles (offering cost savings)
Printed Offline Journal Subscriber bundle - £40 for 12 months
(Includes Offline printed issue #015 (May ‘25) with free P&P, online Newsletter/website Subscription access, and 20% discount on any Offline Essay or catalog publication)Printed Offline Journal Subscriber Plus bundle - £65 for 12 months
(Includes new CHAOS Project publication (Sept ‘24), Offline printed issue #015 (May ‘25) both with free P&P, online Newsletter/website Subscription Plus access, and 20% discount on any Offline Essay or catalog publication).
PLUS! *Free Roo Lewis ‘Port Talbot UFO Investigation Club’ exhibition catalog ships with CHAOS publication if a new Offline Journal Subscription Plus bundle is purchased before midnight Sunday 3 August 2025.Note: supporters purchasing either of these Subscription Bundles will be automatically signed-up to their appropriate Newsletter/website subscription and have access from 8pm Friday 1 August 2025.
(And just a quick reminder that whilst the popular Exhibitions & Events listings page will continue to be regularly updated free on the new Offline website, Subscriber Plus supporters have incremental event listings included at the end of each of their Newsletters - effectively providing a growing archive of past photography events around Wales for reference).
If you would like to stay abreast of the latest news and articles on photography across Wales you can purchase a new Subscription to the printed Offline Journal – and have online access – via one of the above two Bundles on the Offline Journal online store now. Subscription, in whichever form, is much appreciated in supporting Offline Journal in its ongoing promotion of contemporary photography in, from, and of Wales!
PHOTOZINE & PRINT DAY: Update #2
Just one table remaining!
The Turner House lower gallery will host this next event in the SIGNATURES series that focus on photobooks and self-publishing on Saturday 20 September 2025 from 11am - 3.30pm. And with The Turner House' 2025 Open Exhibition on the walls in both the lower and upstairs gallery, there will be a wide variety of visual art to keep visitors creatively stimulated, beyond just photography, on the day!
I would encourage all photographers to consider submitting an appropriate photographic print that responds the this years Open Exhibition theme of ‘UNITY’ before the deadline of 12 noon, Sunday 10 August 2025. The Open
Exhibition will run 4 September – 19 October 2025.
The Photozine & Print Day will be a great opportunity for photographers and photography fans of all ages to come along and see numerous printed photozines and photographic prints being created today in South Wales. And with the ever-expanding ‘Box of Zines’ also available to explore on the day, the collection includes photozine self-publishing produced from across Wales in recent years.
If you have an idea for a photozine of your own then why not aim to have it completed as a rough mock-up, or even have just one or two printed, by Saturday 20 September as your loose deadline?
If you don’t want to take a table but would instead like to bring along a photozine or two of your own to show or discuss with other attendees (or add your finished photozines to the ‘Box of Zines’ collection) , feel free!
The Photozine & Print Day will be both an opportunity to purchase photozines and prints, and a relaxed social event to chat with myself, other photographers and attendees on the day
Tables at this event are FREE - so if you have a photozine, photobook or photographic prints you would like to offer for sale, you can reserve the last available table by emailing me at: offline.journal@gmail.com
Over the next couple of Newsletters I’ll be sharing the names of the photographers who will have a table at this Photozine & Print Day, the first being Yasmin Crawford…
“I am a fine art photographer and visual artist with a science background.
I have exhibited internationally. I now work in ‘The Grey Space’ between art and science.I will be offering A5 Artist book, the first of a series of books on art and science, along with prints from different aspects of my portfolio.”
Another participating photographer will be Pete Davis, venturing out from his home in Carmarthenshire for the day. Pete describes some of the photography books and prints he’ll be offering for sale at the event...
“An opportunity to buy a wide range of prints and books from a number of my past and ongoing projects. These will include affordable prints from the 'City Stories', 'Great Little Tin Sheds of Wales', 'Cader Idris', 'Sardinia', and 'Wildwood' series, plus ongoing projects and also platinum prints”.
Many will be aware that Pete’s work is popular amongst collectors, and he assures me he’ll be offering very affordable prints on the day!
SIGNATURES PHOTOZINE & PRINT DAY
Photography zine & print sales day
11am - 3.30pm, Saturday 20 September 2025
The Turner House, Penarth, Cardiff CF64 3DH
www.turnerhouse.wales
Ffotogallery Archive commissioned artists announced
Ffotogallery have announced the names of the two commissioned artists who will be producing a body of work responding to the Ffotogallery archive.
Ffotogallery are delighted to announce that the two artists for National Lottery Heritage Fund commissions will be Dr Durre Shahwar (Disabled Artists commission) and Rhys Slade-Jones (LQBTQ+ commission).
– Ffotogallery website
You can read more about the commission and the artists on Ffotogallery’s News page www.ffotogallery.org/news
EYE FESTIVALS - EARLY BIRD TICKETS ENDING SOON!
Limited EARLY BIRD Weekend tickets are still available for the EYE Festival Friday 17th to Sunday 19th October 2025 in Aberystwyth: £50 or £30 for students but only available until Thursday 31 July 2025.
Similarly, Early Bird tickets for The Northern EYE Festival in Colwyn Bay are still available for the speaker weekend Saturday 4 – Sunday 5 October 2025.