Wednesday 31 March 2021 - 7pm UK Time (live online via Zoom)

Daniel Meadows : Sight & Sound - Voice in photography

Daniel Meadows is one of the UK’s most respected social documentary photographers and documentarians.
He studied photography in the early 1970’s at Manchester Polytechnic alongside Peter Fraser, Brian Griffin, Martin Parr and Charlie Meecham. His early work includes projects on the Moss Side area of Manchester and his larger ‘Free Photographic Omnibus’ project which saw him spend over a year travelling around England in a double decker bus he’d converted into working darkrooms and sleeping space. He later went on to be an educator on the renowned Documentary Photography Course in Newport alongside David Hurn in the early 1980s and, ten years later, a lecturer in photojournalism at Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies where his students included Tim Hetherington.

Daniel has long been an advocate of audio and pioneer in the UK in recording the voices of many of his portrait subjects and his interaction with them. Whilst working as creative director of 'Capture Wales', a 2001-2006 BBC Wales project on Digital Storytelling, he and his team won a prestigious BAFTA Cymru award. His complete Archive was acquired by The Bodleian Library in Oxford in early 2018, which celebrated the important work with an exhibition in October 2019 titled Now and Then, accompanied by a book of the same name. The includes many hundreds of hours of unique audio records alongside his photographs.

Ffoton are delighted to have Daniel as guest on this live #ffotonsocial event to discuss the unique and powerful emotive qualities audio can add to stills photography and the ways photographers can employ audio in their professional and/or personal projects.

There will be an audience Q&A and discussion.

As Ffoton receives no funding, this online guest talk has a nominal ticket price of £3.00 to help cover our Zoom fees.