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Lucy Jane Purrington

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Lucy Jane Purrington

Lucy Jane Purrington IN CONVERSATION WITH Paul Cabuts
Pontypridd, June 2019

Lucy Jane Purrington YN SGWRSIO GYDAG Paul Cabuts
Pontypridd, Mehefin 2019

Aled Rhys Hughes speaking at Ffotogaleri y Gofeb in Machynlleth during a John Blakemore event in March 2019. Image © Brian Carroll

Aled Rhys Hughes speaking at Ffotogaleri y Gofeb in Machynlleth during a John Blakemore event in March 2019. Image © Brian Carroll

Lucy Jane Purrington is a Rhondda-based Artist whose photographic work most often takes on a surreal quality. Her ongoing self-portrait project focusses on themes of identity and mental health whilst at the same time exploring photography as a means of visual storytelling.
Her work has been published in numerous magazines.

Ffoton are delighted to feature Lucy and her work and are grateful to both Lucy and Paul Cabuts for recording this conversation.

See below for a small selection of Lucy's work, reproduced here on Ffoton with kind permission of the photographer.

Yma ar Ffoton trwy garedigrwydd y ffotograffydd fe welwch gasgliad bychan o'i waith isod.

View more of Lucy's work on her website www.lucypurrington.com
Follow her work on Instagram @ljpurrington_art

Gallery images © Lucy Jane Purrington and used with permission of the photographer.
Podcast banner images © Brian Carroll

Topics covered in the conversation:
Barbara Kruger - www.barbarakruger.com
Sherman Theatre - www.shermantheatre.co.uk
John Cage - In a Landscape (via Spotify)
Ian Walker - City Gorged with Dreams: Surrealism and Documentary Photography in Interwar Paris (Amazon)

Please note: Comments or views made by interview participants are their own and are NOT necessarily the views of the Ffoton Wales team.
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Joanne Coates

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Joanne Coates

JOANNE COATES IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG
Haverfordwest, January 2019

JOANNE COATES YN SGWRSIO GYDAG EMYR YOUNG
Hwlffordd, Ionawr 2019

Ffoton’s Emyr Young in conversation with Joanne Coates - a documentary photographer and founder of Lens Think - a new Social Enterprise based in the north of England promoting diversity in the creative arts. Lens Think organises socials and pop-up exhibitions in locations in and around Yorkshire and helps share artist opportunities.

As a working photographer, Joanne is interested in working life and class inequality - a topic she is passionate about in the profession of photography and evident in her varied portfolio of personal and commissioned work. Her work has been published by Vice, the BBC, The Telegraph and The Guardian.

See below for a small selection of Joanne's work, reproduced here on Ffoton with kind permission of the photographer.

Yma ar Ffoton trwy garedigrwydd y ffotograffydd fe welwch gasgliad bychan o'i waith isod.

Panorama Gallery

View more of Joanne's work on her website www.joannecoates.co.uk
Follow her current adventures on Instagram @joannercoates and Twitter @JoanneRCoates

Gallery images © Joanne Coates and used with permission of the photographer.
Banner image © Emyr Young

Please note: Comments or views made by interview participants are their own and are NOT necessarily the views of the Ffoton Wales team.
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Dafydd Jones

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Dafydd Jones

DAFYDD JONES IN CONVERSATION WITH MARTIN PARR
Bristol, January 2019

DAFYDD JONES YN SGWRSIO GYDAG MARTIN PARR
Bryste, Ionawr 2019

Iris Love and Brooke Astor with Just Desserts and Dolly Astor at a Dachund party. Barbetta, Manhattan, February 1990. © Photograph Copyright Dafydd Jones

Iris Love and Brooke Astor with Just Desserts and Dolly Astor at a Dachund party. Barbetta, Manhattan, February 1990.
© Photograph Copyright Dafydd Jones

Angelina Jolie arriving at Golden Globes. Beverley Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles 2000 © Photograph Copyright Dafydd Jones

Angelina Jolie arriving at Golden Globes. Beverley Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles 2000
© Photograph Copyright Dafydd Jones

Ffoton is delighted to present a conversation with the very talented and highly respected social and society photographer Dafydd Jones talking to our guest interviewer Martin Parr.

Having studied Fine Art before moving to photography, Dafydd’s professional career has spanned over forty years capturing exclusive behind the scenes images of the rich, famous and entitled in both British and New York societies working for Tatler Magazine and many newspapers. In this stimulating conversation on his career and work, Dafydd discusses his ongoing love of photography and why his extensive archive is now his focus in generating income.

Many thanks again to Martin and his team at The Martin Parr Foundation for their hospitality. Consider supporting the important work they’re doing in building a unique collection of British Documentary photography in Bristol - and attending the monthly talks and exhibitions - by becoming a member.

See below for a small selection of Dafydd's work, reproduced here on Ffoton with kind permission of the photographer.

Yma ar Ffoton trwy garedigrwydd y ffotograffydd fe welwch gasgliad bychan o'i waith isod.

Panorama Gallery

View more of Dafydd's work on his website www.dafjones.com
Follow his current adventures on Instagram @dafyddjonesphotographer

Gallery images © Dafydd Jones and used with permission of the photographer.
Banner image © Brian Carroll

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Brian David Stevens

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Brian David Stevens

Brian David Stevens IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG
Cardiff, September 2018

Brian David Stevens YN SGWRSIO GYDAG EMYR YOUNG
Caerdydd, Medi 2018

Ffoton talks with professional photographer Brian David Stevens about his career and many projects. Brian is based in London but his parents hail from the Welsh valleys where they still reside.

Covering many personal projects in his career, Brian spends long periods of time photographing people and places with an artistic eye and great sensitivity. His well known "They that are left..." : 'Remembrance' portraits of War Veterans’ was produced over a ten year period, and his more recent ‘Beachy Head’ beautifully explores a UK landscape well known for its iconic chalk cliffs but their height also making the area one of the world’s most notorious for suicide.

Brian's portrait of Wilko Johnson is held in the National Portrait Gallery and portrait of Jock Scot in the National Galleries of Scotland Collection.

Photographer Brian David Stevens © Brian Carroll

See below for a small selection of Brian's work, reproduced here on Ffoton with kind permission of the photographer.

Yma ar Ffoton trwy garedigrwydd y ffotograffydd fe welwch gasgliad bychan o'i waith isod.

View more of Brian's work on his website www.briandavidstevens.com
Follow him on Instagram @bds1970 and Twitter @driftingcamera

Gallery images © Brian David Stevens and used with permission of the photographer.
Banner image © Brian Carroll

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Bernard Mitchell

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Bernard Mitchell

BERNARD MITCHELL IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG
SWANSEA, January 2018

BERNARD MITCHELL YN SGWRSIO GYDAG EMYR YOUNG
Abertawe, Ionawr 2018

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Photographers Roger Tiley, Emyr Young and Bernard Mitchell

Photographers Roger Tiley, Emyr Young and Bernard Mitchell

After studying photography at Berkshire College of Art in the mid 1960's, Bernard Mitchell began his long career as a photojournalist working for Thomson Regional Newspapers. Bernard returned to Swansea many years later and in 2003 studied for a Masters degree in photography at Swansea Metropolitan University.

Back in 1966 as a student, he started a project to document the circle of painters, writers and musicians who had associated with Dylan Thomas in their homes and studios but that project extended to cover the wider arts, literature and photography communities across Wales and continues to this day. A new book titled 'Pieces of a Jigsaw' published in late 2017 presents a selection of images from his ongoing Welsh Arts Archive project.

Bernard gifted his archive of photographs of artists and writers of Wales to the Richard Burton Archive at Swansea University in 2016.

Ffoton had the great pleasure of speaking with Bernard at his home in early 2018.

See below for a small selection of Bernard's work, reproduced here on Ffoton with kind permission of the photographer.

Yma ar Ffoton trwy garedigrwydd y ffotograffydd fe welwch gasgliad bychan o'i waith isod.

View more of Bernard's work on his website www.bernardmitchell.co.uk

Gallery images © Bernard Mitchell are held and supplied by The Richard Burton Archives, Swansea University. Used with permission of the photographer.
Podcast images © Brian Carroll.

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Sian Trenberth

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Sian Trenberth

Sian Trenberth IN CONVERSATION WITH Glenn Edwards
CARDIFF, SOUTH WALES, August 2016

Sian Trenberth YN SGWRSIO GYDAG Glenn Edwards
CAERDYDD, DE CYMRU, Awst 2016

Photographer Siân Trenberth in her Cardiff studio. Image by Brian Carroll

Photographer Siân Trenberth in her Cardiff studio. Image by Brian Carroll

Siân Trenberth is one of the most respected people photographers in Wales. Based in Cardiff, she photographs performers, creatives, families and business people in a classic, natural and atmospheric style.

As a dance photographer she takes photographs for professional companies, vocational courses and dance school productions. She is equally in demand by Casting agencies, actors and performers for her natural headshot photography. Siân has worked as a professional photographer since 1992 and her credits include: English National Ballet, Channel Four, Ballet Cymru, English National Ballet School, Hello! and TV Times.

An alumni of the original respected Documentary Photography Course at Newport College of Art, she was tutored by Magnum photographer David Hurn. Ffoton asked fellow alumni and long-time friend Glenn Edwards to talk with Siân about her career and reflect on the fast-changing business of commercial photography. 

Y mae Siân Trenberth yn fawr eu parch fel ffotograffydd yng Nghymru. Y mae hi'n byw yng Nghaerdydd ac yn tynnu lluniau mewn steil clasurol, naturiol ac mewn steil atmosfferig o berfformwyr, pobl greadigol, teuluoedd a phobl busnes.

Bu'n tynnu lluniau dawnswyr proffesiynol ac mae'n arbenigo tynnu lluniau actorion ar gyfer asiantaethau castio. Mae Siân wedi gweithio fel ffotograffydd proffesiynol ers 1992 i gwmnïau adnabyddus fel: English National Ballet, Channel Four, Ballet Cymru, English National Ballet School, Hello, a'r TV Times.

Cafodd eu haddysg ar gwrs dogfennol gwreiddiol Coleg Celf Casnewydd o dan y ffotograffydd Magnum David Hurn. Gofynnodd Ffoton i Glenn Edwards a'i ffrind mynwesol i sgwrsio gyda Siân am ei gyrfa ac i drafod sut mae'r busnes ffotograffig masnachol yn newid.

See below for a small selection of Siân's work, reproduced here on Ffoton with kind permission of the photographer.

Yma ar Ffoton trwy garedigrwydd y ffotograffydd fe welwch gasgliad bychan o'i waith isod.

View more of Siân's work on her website www.sian-trenberth.com
Follow her on Twitter @siantrenberth

Gallery images © Siân Trenberth. Used with permission of the photographer. Podcast images © Brian Carroll.

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