Wales International Festival of Photography
1 - 31 October 2024

Programme

ain’t I a woman?
Oct
11
to 22 Dec

ain’t I a woman?

ain't i a woman looks at industrial wealth and workers, ideas of home as exhibition space, an opening speech by Mrs Crawshay on the Women’s Suffrage movement and portraiture.

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Narcissus In Bloom: Open Call Exhibition
Oct
16
to 30 Nov

Narcissus In Bloom: Open Call Exhibition

Taking Matt Colquhoun’s recent book Narcissus in Bloom: An Alternative History of the Selfie (Repeater Books, 2023), as a starting point, this exhibition, installed along the ground floor Library corridor of USW’s Cardiff Campus, includes over 60 images selected by Colquhoun from an open call inviting submissions of selfies or photographic self-portraits.

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Amateur Photographer Student Roadshow
Oct
30

Amateur Photographer Student Roadshow

Amateur Photographer Magazine are delighted to announce the first-ever Student Roadshow in collaboration with the University of South Wales, in partnership with Canon. This exciting event is a full day of learning from photography professionals, hands-on tutorials and creativity with exhibitors such as Camera Centre.

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Collating the Fragments
Oct
28

Collating the Fragments

Join us for a talk from Marian Delyth sharing multiple projects over the last 50 years. Please note this event will be held in Welsh, with simultaneous translation into English provided by Ruthin Town Council.

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Fireside Chat: Four Artistic Responses to Welsh Archives
Oct
23

Fireside Chat: Four Artistic Responses to Welsh Archives

The University of South Wales invites you to a ‘fireside’-style chat, in which the four commissioned artists converse with each other and with documentary photography lecturer Karin Bareman about their artist practice, about the work they have created in response to the commission, but more importantly, about those partially obscured stories encountered in their chosen archives and lovingly rescued from oblivion.

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Training Bra
Oct
11
to 31 Oct

Training Bra

Training Bra is an ongoing exploration and dialogue between the artist and her inner child. Through self-portraiture, archive, and documentary photography, Katie examines her feelings of nostalgia, confusion, and self-realization – each emotion bubbling to the surface as she reflects through her younger self to accept self-love as the person she is today.

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galvanize
Oct
7
to 31 Oct

galvanize

galvanize showcases a series of inspiring surreal, creative portraits by Suzie Larke. Featuring men from Wales who have faced and are overcoming mental health challenges and are eager to share their journeys with others.

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New Farmer
Oct
5
to 31 Oct

New Farmer

New Farmer poses as a collection of documentary photographs from the 1960s that seem to reiterate the success story of the Green Revolution: genetic manipulation results in new crop varieties which result in bigger and better harvests.

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The Changemakers Project
Oct
5
to 31 Oct

The Changemakers Project

The Changemakers Project, led by HDA and funded by the Welsh Government and Arts Council of Wales, seeks to show the nature of change in the 20th Century - a time of the reshaping of continents after two World Wars that drew on the Empires of the European nations and fed the final collapse of European Empires.

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Visible Repairs
Oct
1
to 6 Nov

Visible Repairs

Visible Repairs is a work where a new coniated ethos “The Welsh Dream” emerges as a revitalised concept seeking to reshape the narrative distancing itself from the capitalization of the term often associated with the American Dream.

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Legacy
Oct
1
to 6 Nov

Legacy

Carmarthen School of Art has been a beacon for aspiring photographers for nearly fifty years. Since its inception in 1978, the Photography course has nurtured countless talents, providing a springboard into the dynamic world of visual storytelling and artistic expression.

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