#77: Offline Journal Newsletter: 10 Sept '24
Photography news and events around Wales
Hello again
Another quick Newsletter but packed with news and events - one of which, a talk 7pm this evening 10 Sept by Glenn Edwards, will be worth attending if you can make it along to Newport Museum & Art Gallery.
Be sure to check the exhibitions and events listings using the button at the end of this email - and those links included in the news pieces below.
Brian
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FFOTO CYMRU OPEN CALL WINNERS
Ffotogallery has announced the photographers chosen from their recent Ffoto Cymru festival open call during a launch event in Cardiff on Thursday 5 September.
Although not yet included on their website, of the 300 applicants, the successful eight selected by Ffotogallery from a shortlist of twenty-four are:
Aisha Ajnabi, Bruce Eesly, Natela Grigalashvili, Melissa Rodrigues, Katie Waite, Mohamed Amin, Chloe Davies and Matt Colquhoun.
The new biennial photography festival will run 1 - 31 October 2024 in Ffotogallery and partner exhibition spaces around Wales, replacing their previous Diffusion Festival.
Describing the new festival theme ‘What You See is What You Get’, as a provocation and a challenge, Director Siân Addicott expanded on what’s to come during October:
“With the new festival, we were hoping to sort of broaden our outreach a bit, to stretch a bit further across Wales and we have ambition to make it a national festival. We also are reflecting on ourselves as an organisation and we've been looking at our own archives. The archival element of this is going to be quite important and through the initial research that we looked at, we found, like many arts and cultural organisations, women have been really underrepresented. And so this festival was an opportunity for us to showcase some of the incredible and talented women and non-binary artists who are working in Wales at the moment. So that's the core of the festival”.
– Siân Addicott, Ffotogallery Director
Photography Talk in Newport 7pm tonight
To accompany his exhibition ‘Home: In Another Land’ currently showing in Newport Museum & Art Gallery until this Saturday 14 September, photographer Glenn Edwards will give a talk this evening (Tuesday 10 Sept) in the gallery reflecting on his career as a photojournalist, picture editor and publisher.
Doors open 6.45pm and the event starts 7pm.
Long and Winding Road - A Career in Photography
Talk by Glenn Edwards
7pm Tuesday 10 September 2024 (£3 entry)
Newport Museum & Art Gallery, Newport NP20 1PA
Event web page
NEW BOOK & DOCUMENTARY FILM
Roger Tiley is busy editing moving and still images from a recent commission in the USA.
A new book ‘MODERN AMERICA’ is underway for release in late October and will be published by 2 Ten Books. Pre-orders will be available in the same month, and there’s a new promo for the book on the photographer’s YouTube channel.
Tiley has also released a short trailer for Valley Boy with a Camera –
a 1 hour 15 min documentary film on his experience growing up in the South Wales Valleys, his time on the DocPhot course in Newport and his photography in the 1980s.
The film includes interviews with David Hurn and Martin Parr and, beyond the film festival circuit, Roger Tiley hopes to show it in Wales at a future date.
WITNESSING WALES at The Pierhead
The Pierhead’s FUTURES GALLERY is now hosting Mohamed Hassan’s WITNESSING WALES exhibition through to 2 November.
The prints on show in Cardiff Bay are drawn from an ongoing and expanding body of work by the young Egyptian photographer as he travels around Wales from his home in Pembrokeshire. A mix of landscapes and portraits made along various journeys as stated in the exhibition information, “…forms an allegorical tale for finding a sense of belonging within the story of Wales today”.
The Witnessing Wales project and exhibition are self-funded and it’s refreshing to see the prints eschew frames and simply pinned to the walls in the gallery. Mo will be at the gallery to attend an opening event scheduled for 12 noon on Wednesday 18 October. All welcome.
Hassan has just been informed that another of his projects, ‘OUR HIDDEN ROOM’, has been selected as one of twelve photobook dummies to be premiered at the Books on Photography festival in Bristol 19-20 October. Twelve books will be displayed in the Paintworks Event Space across the BOP 24 festival weekend, in front of over 3,000 visitors, publishers and industry experts.
WITNESSING WALES
Mohamed Hassan
7 September - 2 November 2024 (PV 12pm 18 Sept)
Pierhead Futures Gallery, Cardiff Bay CF99 1SN
www.senedd.wales
www.mohamedhassanphotography.com