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Photographer Roger Tiley in conversation with Ron McCormick who also had a recent exhibition at the Kickplate Gallery in Abertillery, South Wales.

Roger is exhibiting his early photographs of mining life, including images of the Celynen South Colliery, Crumlin Mines Rescue and the picket lines and soup kitchens during the 1984/85 miners' strike.

The exhibition runs at the Kickplate Gallery until 5th November - find out more on our Events page here >

Ffoton managed to grab Roger away from a busy book signing to talk with him briefly about this latest exhibition.

Image © Brian Carroll

Image © Brian Carroll

Follow them on Twitter @KickplateGallView more of Roger's work on his website www.rogertiley.com
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Kickplate Gallery : 3 Church St, Abertillery NP13 1DB

Jon Pountney has been documenting the annual Iris Prize since its inception in 2006, as well as the short films made by winners of the prize.

Running for the duration of the 2016 Festival, this new exhibition - audio/visual and stills photography - offers a window on the world of film production as well as offering previously unseen behind-the-scenes coverage of the eight Iris Prize Productions to date.

We went along to view the exhibition and spoke with Jon about the project.

The exhibition at the Park Inn Hotel in Cardiff ends Sunday 16th October and AV screenings at nightly at 6.30pm

Follow Jon on Twitter @C_before_C
Find out more about the IRIS Prize Festival on www.irisprize.org and on Twitter @irisprize

Photographer David Hurn giving to talk on Aberfan in Cardiff.

2016 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Aberfan disaster in 1966 which saw 116 children and 28 adults killed in the small Welsh valley's mining village.

In his first public talk focussing on the disaster, titled Before and After. Aberfan: Thoughts on Privacy, Magnum photographer David Hurn reflected on his career of documenting small and large events  and the role of photographers and photojournalism. 

Before and After. Aberfan: Thoughts on Privacy
Friday 2nd September 2016
National Museum Cardiff, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3N

Banner image (used with permission of the photographer) and audio content © David Hurn. Audio recording © Ffoton Wales

Photographer Al Brydon. © Brian Carroll

Photographer Rob Hudson. © Brian Carroll

We grabbed the opportunity a few weeks back to get some fresh air and speak with Al Brydon and Rob Hudson - two of the founding members of the new Landscape photography Collective Inside the Outside. With member photographers from across the UK, ITO are just getting started. So it seemed to be the perfect time to talk with Rob and Al about the formation of the group, the Collective approach to contemporary Landscape, their plan (spoiler-alert: there isn't one!) and activities they're planning this side of Christmas in 2016.

We look forward to seeing some great work emerging from this new and enthusiastic Collective in coming months.

Find out more about Inside the Outside and the work of members Al Brydon, Rob Hudson, Joe Wright and Stephen Segasby on the website www.inside-the-outside.com and follow them on Twitter @inside_the_out

Gallery images © and used with the permission of the photographers.

Glastonbury. Image © Jill Furmanovsky

Photojournalist Glenn Edwards, Director of the Eye International Photography Festival. Image © Glyn Shakeshaft

With the event Programme and guest Speakers now in place, Ffoton's Brian Carroll grabbed a coffee with The Eye International Photography Festival Director and busy photojournalist Glenn Edwards to find out more about the format of the 2016 event, taking place in Aberystwyth Friday 30 September -Sunday 2 October.

Ffoton believes this will be the most important photography Festival held in Wales this year and encourage photographers to book a place and come along to Aberystwyth for what promises to be a fantastic weekend of photography talks, exhibitions and relaxed, social gathering!

Find out more information about the Eye Festival and the event programme on www.theeyefestival.co.uk
Book your ticket online via this link on the Aberystwyth Arts Centre website 
Follow @EyeFestival on Twitter for regular news and updates 

Banner image © Rhodri Jones
Glenn Edwards image © Glyn Shakeshaft

The Cardiff-based developers are demonstrating what a talented team with a simple idea can do to make quality photography printing easily available to enthusiasts and professionals. The quality of the prints and paper stocks they've secured in partnering with reputable professional labs around the world speaks for itself (we know first-hand as they worked with us to provide several high quality prints for our first exhibition last October).

The company is now growing rapidly: expanding their team, hiring an ex-Kodak executive recently and striking deals with partners and customers internationally - including securing Legoland Windsor as a corporate customer recently here in the UK.

Ffoton's Brian Carroll met up with Steve Martin, one of the development team in Cardiff to discuss their easy to use online Pwint.ly service that allows anyone to upload images and start selling their work immediately.

To kick the tyres and try the pwint.ly service for yourself, go to www.pwint.ly
Or if you'd like to explore integrating the full-blown Pwinty API on your own website, go to www.pwinty.com  
Follow them on Twitter @PwintyAPI

Mark Hooper, founder of Indycube

Ffoton's Brian Carroll spoke with Mark about the benefits of the co-working model, business opportunities for users and expansion of the network of Indycube locations within Wales and upcoming move beyond the border.

We're big fans of Indycube and we think the location of these co-working spaces offer real potential for freelance photographers working in and around Wales to access great affordable desk space, fast WiFi, great coffee and make new contacts.

Indycube are also kindly supporting our new #urbanwales show running in The Littleman Coffee Co. in Cardiff 4th April - 2nd July.

For more information on Indycube and their growing list of locations, visit their website www.indycube.cymru
Follow them on Twitter @indycube

Rondo Media Producer & Director Caryl Ebenezer. 

Rondo Media Producer & Director Caryl Ebenezer.

Born in the small town of Rhuddlan in North Wales, Philip Jones Griffiths' harrowing images of the Vietnam War had a profound effect on both American and International audiences to such an extent that the photojournalist’s work is credited with pressuring the USA to pull out of the conflict.

Ffoton discusses pre-production required in bringing the television documentary to fruition, the photographer's family and Magnum Photos being involved, the his two books published of the Vietnam work (Vietnam Inc. and Agent Orange: Collateral Damage in Vietnam) and location shooting in Vietnam.

Congratulations to Rondo and S4C for creating a worthy tribute to a great Welsh photographer.
You can watch the Documentary again on S4C March 2nd at 10pm with English subtitles.
And on BBC iPlayer (in UK) for the next month.

You can find our more about the programme on the following websites:
Rondo Media - www.rondomedia.co.uk   >   Follow them on Twitter @rondomedia 
S4C - www.s4c.cymru   >   Follow them on Twitter

Ffoton News images © Brian Carroll (apart from the obvious one!)

Magnum Photographer Ian Berry delivering the 2nd The Nick Lewis Memorial Trust in Cardiff. Image © Brian Carroll

Ffoton Wales couldn't miss the opportunity to book a place for last night's guest lecture by Magnum Photos legend Ian Berry at Cardiff University's Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies

The talk was the second annual lecture dedicated to the life of former South Wales journalist Nick Lewis, which last year welcomed former Middle-East hostage John McCarthy. Lewis died of cancer in November 1999 at the age of 43 and, following his passing, The Nick Lewis Memorial Trust was established to support young journalists with scholarships, exhibitions and bursaries.

We worked to secure an exclusive interview with Ian prior to his Lecture and were chuffed to have photojournalist Glenn Edwards (a Newport DocPhoto Alumni taught by David Hurn and life-long Ian Berry fan) agree to speak with Ian. Gents both!

A great conversation.

Thanks also to USW Photojournalism student Stephen Meredith for taking the images below.

Magnum Photographer Ian Berry takes questions from the audience. Image © Stephen Meredith

Magnum Photographer Ian Berry takes questions from the audience. Image © Stephen Meredith

We also managed to capture a video segment (right) of Ian describing his experience of the Sharpville Massacre in South Africa, 1960.

See more of Ian's work  >  Magnum Photos website
His own website  >  www.ianberrymagnum.com
Follow him on Twitter @IanBerryMagnum

The Gallery, situated in the seaside town of Colwyn Bay and housed within the historic Theatr Colwyn building, works with local, national and international photographers, as well as current and up and coming new talent, is rapidly becoming North Wales' hottest photography space.

We're delighted to team up with Oriel Colwyn to exhibit selected images from North Wales as part of our #urbanwales project during May 2016.

Ffoton Wales caught up with Oriel Colwyn Curator and practicing photographer Paul Sampson to find out more about the gallery.

Paul Sampson, curator at Oriel Colwyn

Oriel Colwyn (Upstairs at Theatr Colwyn)
Abergele Road,
Colwyn Bay,
North Wales
LL29 7RU

Tel: 01492 577888

www.orielcolwyn.org
Follow them on Twitter @OrielColwyn
On Facebook – OrielColwynGallery