#91: Offline Journal Newsletter: 4 March '25
Photography news for early March
Hello again and Happy March
Here is some news on recent publications and events.
Please have a look through the exhibitions and events listings - there is very likely something photography-related happening at a venue near you!
Brian
CLWB FFOTO now open for business
Congratulations to Marc Lewis and Justin Rossiter on hosting the opening of the new CLWB FFOTO gallery and preview evening for Roger Tiley’s ‘BLACK COAL IN THE VALLEYS’ exhibition on the evening of Saturday 1 March.
The opening event had an impressive turnout with photographers, local artists and friends viewing the impressive number of prints and contact sheets of Tiley’s photography documenting the lives of south Wales mining communities and the 1984-85 miners' strike.
BLACK COAL IN THE VALLEYS
Roger Tiley
1 March - 12 April 2025
Clwb Ffoto, Newport Arcade, Newport NP20 1GD
@clwb_ffoto on Instagram
(website coming soon)
Ffotogallery 2025 Programme
Ffotogallery have announced their full programme of exhibitions from now through to December 2025.
“We’re thrilled to announce our 2025 season of exhibitions at Ffotogallery that embrace the power of visual storytelling to address the challenges of our time.”
– Ffotogallery website
www.ffotogallery.org/news/2025-programme-announcement
NEW BOOK by NIK ROCHE
One recent photobook from Wales that I neglected to mention is Neath -native Nik Roche’s ‘AS FAR AS THEY'RE CONCERNED WE ARE A NORMAL FAMILY’ published last month by Dewi Lewis Publishing.
We meet Tony, just as photographer Nik Roche did, living in an arctic bell tent he set up in the woods behind his own house, overlooking a once-thriving mining village in South Wales. ‘As Far As They’re Concerned We Are A Normal Family’ is about Tony’s search for those tenuous rituals we call home — a home that for Tony has always been elusively just ahead along an ever-deviating pathway, somewhere beyond the trees and rocks, shrouded in a volatile haze of recurrent visions, gut punches, bloodied cuts and cigarette smoke.
– Publisher website
This new book follows on from his The Budgie Died Instantly (Setanta Books, 2020).
The book is available to purchase now from the publisher and on Amazon.
MURDER ON YNYS MÔN - Images by Rob Law
Following the successful BBC podcast ‘The Crossbow Killer’, producer Meic Parry approached Ynys Môn-based photographer Robert Law to contribute to a new book on the incident.
Commissioned by publisher Seren Books, Law provided 32 images for MURDER ON YNYS MÔN which investigates the unsolved questions arising from the brutal 2019 murder of pensioner Gerald Corrigan with a crossbow and with no apparent motive or explanation.
Law used his knowledge and familiarity of the island to document the remote locations involved and also offer a creative response to the brief. The book features his work for many colour plates as well as the front and rear covers.
Written by former BBC reporter Siôn Tecwyn, the MURDER ON YNYS MÔN will be officially launched in Holyhead Library this Thursday 6th March 2025. Tickets for the event are available via the link below.
MURDER ON YNYS MÔN book launch
Seren Books launch event (images by Rob Law)
7 - 8pm (doors 6.40pm) Thursday 6 March 2025
Holyhead Library, Holyhead LL65 1HH
www.anglesey.gov.wales
More for your event diary…
The upcoming Newport Festival of Words 2025 has Magnum photographer David Hurn included in their speaker lineup.
Newport Festival of Words 2025 runs 20 - 23 March at venues across Newport City Centre.
DAVID HURN
In conversation with Glenn Edwards
Newport Festival of Words 2025
1pm - 2.15pm, Saturday 22 March 2025
Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Newport NP20 1PA
www.newportwordfest.co.uk
More SIGNATURES news here on the Newsletter soon!
SIGNATURES #2
Conversations on Photobooks
12.00 - 4pm, Saturday 10 May 2025
The Turner House, Penarth, Cardiff CF64 3DH
www.turnerhouse.wales