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An Allegory of Industry

In that Victorian amenity, Aberdare Park, with its boating lake and bizarre cast-iron fountain, there also…
Ur-Graffiti

Looking back at these old slides, I am struck by the palpable presence of objects in…
Rain and Recession

It had rained that autumn in Wales for sixty days following one upon the other, a…
From Marble to Iron

I remember photographing the Albert Memorial on a clear spring day, fascinated and horrified by that…
Hidden Talent

In the last blog post, I mentioned that one of the kids at the home would…
Money, Class, Photography—and the Lubitel

Looking back on some of the colour slides I was taking at this time, now they…
The Inner Shadow

Normally, I would do all I could to efface my presence from images, seeing it as…
ABCs

On my various wanderings around and about Aberdare that winter, I came across the town’s brick…