#87: Offline Journal Newsletter: 12 Jan '25
Happy 2025
Hello again and Happy New Year!
Christmas has come and gone for another year and as everyone braves the cold weather and slowly gets back into work mode, here are a couple of bits of news relating to photography in Wales.
I’m also offering a couple of Offline Journal publications at a reduced price for anyone seeking some photography reading material for this colder weather! See below.
Please feel free to let me know of any upcoming events or exhibitions that I haven’t included on the exhibitions listings page. Similarly, you can leave any comments or info by clicking the comments icon at the bottom of this page.
Brian
BARGAIN OFFER!!
As one of National Museum Cardiff’s most popular exhibitions with over 90,000 visitors since opening in May last year, THE VALLEYS ended its successful run on 5th January 2025.
To accompany the exhibition, the 44-page ‘Bargoed Mining Community’ catalog was published as a collaboration between Offline Journal and Swedish photographer Kjell-Åke Andersson to document the fifteen photographs shown in the exhibition, with three additional images from his larger archive of images shot in Bargoed between 1976 and 1985.
I have a small number of the 44-page catalogs available at a one-time bargain price of just £5.00 plus £2 P&P.
These are from an early print run that used staple binding before we opted for perfect binding on the second run that went out to Offline Journal Subscriber Plus supporters and also stocked by Museum Cardiff’s Shop. Exactly the same images and page content, just different binding.
You can order a copy of catalog 004 directly from the Offline Journal online store. Whilst stocks last, I’m also offering the reduced £2 P&P rate for the limited number of earlier catalogs 001 (David Hurn) and 002 (Pete Davis).
THE COLOUR OF STEEL
Currently on the last lap of assignments to complete her Degree in photography at Coleg Gwent, Tamsin Stirling is currently exhibiting a small selection of prints from her COLOUR OF STEEL project in Blackwood.
Describing the project, Stirling says…
“I made images of degraded steel and slag from the former East Moors steelworks found on Splott Beach, took some materials into the studio and made images of the current Celsa steelworks”.
www.tamsinstirlingbe22.myportfolio.com
Follow her on Instagram @tamsinstirling
THE COLOUR OF STEEL
Tamsin Stirling
7 - 17 January 2025
The Talking Shop, 8/9 The Market Place (next to the Post Office), Blackwood NP12 1AU
Opening hours 9.30am-5.30pm Mon- Sat
OFFLINE ISSUE #013 FOR JUST £10
Here’s a limited time treat for subscribers to this Newsletter - get the current issue #013 of Offline Journal for just £10 instead of the current website price of £14.
The 40-page ‘CAUSE & EFFECT’ issue features several articles on the work of photographers covering protest, activism and conflict. There are also two articles covering exhibitions by Marian Delyth in Ffotogallery in Cardiff and Stephen Clarke in Oriel Colwyn in Colwyn Bay.
Grab yourself some great photography and informative reading material for these cold January evenings!
Plus, this offer carries the discounted £2 P&P rate of catalog 004 mentioned earlier in this edition of the Newsletter.
Just use the Discount Code OJ013Jan25 at checkout to get £4 off a copy of issue #013.
Ffocws 2024 Open Call at Ffotogallery
Just a reminder that anyone applying for the next round of Ffotogallery’s FFOCWS scheme has until 11.59pm this evening (Sunday 12 January) to submit their information.
FFOCWS 2024 OPEN CALL
Ffotogallery
Deadline: 11.59pm 12 January 2025
Ffotogallery, Cardiff CF24 4EH
www.ffotogallery.org