Wales International Festival of Photography
1 - 31 October 2024
Programme
In Plain Sight (Miss Jenkins? - after Richard Wilson)
In the artist's research responding to the title of this year’s Festival ‘What You See Is What You Get’, the painting by Richard Wilson has become a metaphor for the question: Do we really get what we see? and how does an image speak to the truth?
Darnau | Fragments
Darnau | Fragments is a major solo survey exhibition of the work of Marian Delyth, celebrating the launch of the 2024 Ffoto Cymru festival this October.
Histories, Legacies & Futures
Selected as part of the Ffoto Cymru International Open Call, Histories, Legacies & Futures brings together the work of Melissa Rodrigues and Aisha Ajnabi.
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.
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.
In Conversation with Aisha Ajnabi (Umulkhayr Mohamed)
Join us for an in-conversation with Aisha Ajnabi (Umulkhayr Mohamed) & Rupali Leela Naik that carries on an exchange around the works in Histories, Legacies & Futures, at Oriel y Bont as part of Ffoto Cymru 2024.
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.
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.
Cyanotype ‘Sunprint’ Workshop with Audrey Albert
Discover the magic of Sunprinting (Cyanotypes) in this creative workshop with artist Audrey Albert.
Out of this World: Photography of War and Conflict
Join us for this free talk with Helen Mavin, Head of Photographs, Imperial War Museums, at Glynn Vivian Art Gallery.
Galvanize: Film Screening & Discussion
We are excited to invite you to a powerful evening dedicated to raising awareness about the urgent issue of men’s mental health in Wales. Join us upstairs at Newport Market on Thursday, 24th October, from 6-8pm for this special event.
Feminist Library: Dr Natasha Hirst
Dr Natasha Hirst will lead a discussion on disability representation in photography and how images shape narratives about minoritised communities.
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.
Feminist Library: Dr Alix Beeston
Featuring an informal talk and a creative writing workshop, this session will give participants an opportunity to explore and practise feminist ways of seeing, thinking, and writing about photographs.
Narcissus in Bloom: Artist Talk & Book Signing
This talk will explore how the selfie is not simply a product of subjective stasis in a stagnant capitalist world, but rather a measure of our capacity for self-transformation and a window into the changes we are constantly undergoing.
Photorengas with the Valley Kids
In the summer of 2024 the art group from the Valleys Kids worked with artists David Sinden and Kate Woodward to create Photorengas, supported by Ffotogallery and Disability Arts Cymru.
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.
Hidden Masters: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes
In partnership with Iris Prize, join us for this screening of the feature length documentary about George Platt Lynes, an American fashion and commercial photographer recognised today as a master of 20th century photography.
Feminist Library: Foto Féminas
Foto Féminas artists Luiza Konz, Julieta Anaut and Lorena Marchetti will be discussing their practice and their experience in the Foto Féminas collective.
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.
Darkroom Experience Workshops
Learn how to develop your own film in the darkroom at Ffoto Newport.
Collage Making Workshop
Julieta Anaut, Luiza Possamai Kons and Lorena Marchetti will lead on an afternoon of discussion and creative collage-making workshops exploring some of the themes raised in the exhibition.
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.
The Final Days of Georgian Nomads
Mountainous Adjara is a unique region in Georgia where traditions and old ways of life are preserved. However, the area's isolation has long been a challenge, with recent decades particularly difficult.
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.
The imagined land of belonging
The imagined land of belonging showcases a diverse collection of photographic works, unified by a shared curiosity of our connections to landscapes, family, heritage, and ritual.
Sustainable Photography Darkroom Workshops
The workshops will explore mixing your own chemicals to process silver prints. mixing developer and fixer. Using different organic compounds to explore the printing process, all will be done under red light conditions in a darkroom.
If you kiss him, you won’t dream about him.
This series confronts the cycle of domestic violence and trauma that has affected the women in my family for generations. The work is a visual response to the indiscernibility of domestic narratives that appear in the family album.
Opening Weekend
We warmly invite you to join us for a series of events to celebrate the official opening of the festival, from Thursday 3 - Saturday 5 October.
Out of Sight & Out of Mind
What does it mean to be a Mother today? What is the relationship between motherhood, care and labour and how is this relationship being shaped for tomorrow's world?
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.
Darnau Bach | Little Fragments
Darnau Bach | Little Fragments is a solo exhibition of the work of Marian Delyth, complimenting her major survey exhibition at Ffotogallery in Cardiff as part of Ffoto Cymru 2024.
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.