Huw Alden Davies comes from Tumble, a village in Carmarthenshire that developed in the late 19th century to accommodate the miners at the Great Mountain and Dynant collieries. Mining in the area was in steep decline by the late 1950’s and the area has struggled ever since as the rural economy has also faltered. Davies […]
Category: Photographers
Jonas Bendiksen – Satellites
Jonas Bendiksen (b. 8/9/77) is a Norwegian photographer and has been a Member of Magnum Photos since 2008. After an internship in Magnum Photos London Office in 1996, he went to live in the former USSR. While there, he produced the images for Satellites – Photographs from the Fringes of the former Soviet Union, which […]
Ian Macdonald
Ian Macdonald’s work is characterised by a deep affection for the people and the landscape of his native Teesside. While his subjects may, on the surface, seem ‘unattractive’ (industrial plants and processes; workplaces; desolate salt marshes), he brings a lyricism to his work that does not soften the edge of what he has to represent […]
David Hurn’s Swaps – Exhibition
To mark the opening of the Amgueddfa Cymru‘s (National Museum of Wales’) first gallery dedicated to photography, an exhibition of photographs from David Hurn’s private collection is running from the 30th September 2017 to 11th March 2018. Hurn, a Magnum photographer since 1967, donated his collections to the Amgueddfa Cymru in May of 2017. The […]
Martin Parr
A link to some of Martin Parr’s recent work. Parr’s term for ‘the overwhelming power of published images is “propaganda”. He counters this propaganda with his own chosen weapons: criticism, seduction and humour.’
