Ffoton Wales

WALTER WAYGOOD IN CONVERSATION WITH BRIAN CARROLL MERTHYR TYDFIL, MAY 2024 (Published on Ffoton YouTube channel 13 August 2024) Walter Waygood studied Fine Art at Newport College of Art in the 1970s where he was introduced to the large format camera and, from that point onwards, has incorporated photography into his art, design and photomontage disciplines. Waygood's work was inspired by the Germa...

ROO LEWIS IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG LONDON, APRIL 2024 (released on Ffoton 10 July 2024) Ffoton talks with London-based commercial photographer Roo Lewis. Memories of trips to Wales to visit his grandfather in Pembrokeshire had a lasting impact on Lewis - including those passing the vast steel works in Port Talbot located just off the M4 motorway. Now a busy professional photographer, Lewis...

MARK McNULTY IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG DENBIGH, FEBRUARY 2024 (released on Ffoton 5 May 2024) Ffoton talks with Liverpool-born and now North Wales-based photographer Mark McNulty. Mark is an accomplished photographer and has covered music and popular culture across the UK during his career.  View more of Mark's extensive photography portfolio on his website www.markmcnulty.co.uk Follow him o...

STEVE BENBOW IN CONVERSATION WITH BRIAN CARROLL CHEPSTOW, AUGUST 2023 (released on the Ffoton podcast 31 December 2023) Part 3 of 3 Steve Benbow trained in photography under David Hurn on the original Newport Documentary Photography course in the mid-1970s, after which he was a founding member of the Ffotogallery in Cardiff, a founder of the respected London-based ‘Network’ Agency of photojournali...

STEVE BENBOW IN CONVERSATION WITH BRIAN CARROLL CHEPSTOW, AUGUST 2023 (released on the Ffoton podcast 18 November 2023) Part 2 of 3 Steve Benbow trained in photography under David Hurn on the original Newport Documentary Photography course in the mid-1970s, after which he was a founding member of the Ffotogallery in Cardiff, a founder of the respected London-based ‘Network’ Agency of photojournali...

STEVE BENBOW IN CONVERSATION WITH BRIAN CARROLL CHEPSTOW, AUGUST 2023 (released on the Ffoton podcast 4 November 2023) Part 2 of 3 Steve Benbow trained in photography under David Hurn on the original Newport Documentary Photography course in the mid-1970s, after which he was a founding member of the Ffotogallery in Cardiff, a founder of the respected London-based ‘Network’ Agency of photojournalis...

GABRIELLA JACKSON IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG PENARTH, MARCH 2023 (released on the Ffoton podcast 19 May 2023) Gabriella Jackson is a professional still life and product photographer creating advertising and promotional images for Brands and businesses of all sizes. Ffoton talked with her about her journey to date in professional photography and discuss the competitive and high pressure market...

LORNA CABBLE IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG ABERYSTWYTH, OCTOBER 2022 (released on the Ffoton podcast 9 December 2022) Lorna Cabble is a Cardiff-based photographer holding a first class BA Degree after graduating in Photojournalism and an MFA in Documentary Photography, both from the University of South Wales. She is currently one of two full-time specialist Stills Officers managing and commissio...

HUW ALDEN DAVIES IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG CARMARTHENSHIRE, JUNE 2021 (released on the Ffoton podcast 20 October 2021) Part 2 of 2 Ffoton talks with Carmarthenshire-based photographer Huw Alden Davies at Carmarthen School of Art where Huw leads the BA Photography course. Having shot fashion and editorial work early in his career, Huw’s personal work has come to the fore in recent years throu...

HUW ALDEN DAVIES IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG CARMARTHENSHIRE, JUNE 2021 (released on the Ffoton podcast 1 October 2021) Part 1 of 2 Ffoton talks with Carmarthenshire-based photographer Huw Alden Davies at Carmarthen School of Art where Huw leads the BA Photography course. Having shot fashion and editorial work early in his career, Huw’s personal work has come to the fore in recent years throug...

PETER FINNEMORE IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG CARMARTHENSHIRE, JUNE 2021 (released on the Ffoton podcast 19 September 2021) Part 2 of 2 Peter Finnemore is a long established, and much respected, Welsh photographic artist based in south-west Wales. His work has long explored memory, family, culture and history, and his deeply immersive, thirty-plus year Gwendraeth House project is ongoing. Peter...

PETER FINNEMORE IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG CARMARTHENSHIRE, JUNE 2021 (released on the Ffoton podcast 1 September 2021) Part 1 of 2 Peter Finnemore is a long established, and much respected, Welsh photographic artist based in south-west Wales. His work has long explored memory, family, culture and history, and his deeply immersive, thirty-plus year Gwendraeth House project is ongoing. Peter s...

NICK WYNNE IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG COLWYN BAY, OCTOBER 2019 (released on the Ffoton podcast 1 March 2020) Hailing from Merseyside, Nick Wynne’s life-long passion for photography is evident in his self-initiated projects documenting people and communities - both here in the UK and wider afield. Based in the Wirral not far from the border of the North Wales coast, his passion started in the...

MARTIN PARR IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG CARDIFF, NOVEMBER 2019 (released on the Ffoton podcast 1 March 2020) Martin Parr is a British documentary photographer with a long relationship with, and affection for, Wales. Parr studied photography at Manchester Polytechnic in the early 1970’s alongside peers such as Daniel Meadows and Brian Griffin - both of whom he remains friends with to this day....

HAYDN DENMAN IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG COLWYN BAY, OCTOBER 2019 (released on the Ffoton podcast 4 February 2020) Haydn Denman has been a documentary photographer for over twenty years whilst also following his main career as a multi-BAFTA award-winning television documentary cameraman and director. Haydn has received numerous commissions in addition to British Council and Arts Council Awards...

AMANDA JACKSON IN CONVERSATION WITH ELLIE HOPKINS COLWYN BAY, OCTOBER 2019 (released on the Ffoton podcast 13 December 2019) Canadian by birth but resident in the UK since 2001, Amanda Jackson is a commercial portrait and lifestyle photographer based just over the Welsh border in Malvern. After studying photography in Hereford she has continued to build a portfolio of work for numerous clients whi...

PETER CATTRELL IN CONVERSATION WITH PETE DAVIS MACHYNLLETH, SEPTEMBER 2019 (released on the Ffoton podcast 7 November 2019) Born in Glasgow and now based in London, Peter Cattrell studied photography at London College of Printing and has taught photography part time at Central St Martins, Camberwell and London College of Communication. Highly regarded for his landscape photography made in Britain...

RON McCORMICK IN CONVERSATION WITH PAUL REAS CARDIFF, JUNE 2019 (released on the Ffoton podcast 13 September 2019) Part 3 of 3 Ron McCormick trained as an artist at Liverpool School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools in London before moving across to photography. He played a significant role in the formation and development of photography galleries across the UK in the 1970’s - including Half Mo...

RON McCORMICK IN CONVERSATION WITH PAUL REAS CARDIFF, JUNE 2019 (released on the Ffoton podcast 8 September 2019) Part 2 of 3 Ron McCormick trained as an artist at Liverpool School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools in London before moving across to photography. He played a significant role in the formation and development of photography galleries across the UK in the 1970’s - including Half Moo...

RON McCORMICK IN CONVERSATION WITH PAUL REAS CARDIFF, JUNE 2019 (released on the Ffoton podcast 1 September 2019) Part 1 of 3 Ron McCormick trained as an artist at Liverpool School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools in London before moving across to photography. He played a significant role in the formation and development of photography galleries across the UK in the 1970’s - including Half Moo...

LUCY JANE PURRINGTON IN CONVERSATION WITH PAUL CABUTS PONTYPRIDD, JUNE 2019 (released on the Ffoton podcast 1 July 2019) 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 w...

ALED RHYS HUGHES IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG HAVERFORDWEST, MARCH 2019 (released on the Ffoton podcast 4 June 2019) Aled Rhys Hughes was born in the Rhondda and is a photographic artist and lecturer. Aled has worked in photography for twenty five years and specialises in large format photography using 10x8 analogue cameras. He was awarded a gold medal for his fine art photography at the Nation...

PETE DAVIS IN CONVERSATION WITH GEOFF YOUNG MACHYNLLETH, MARCH 2019 (released on the Ffoton podcast 1 May 2019) Photographer Pete Davis first wielded a camera when he was eleven years old and has since gone on to hone his craft by being an advertising and fashion photographer and was a senior lecturer in documentary photography at the University of Wales, Newport for eighteen years - nine of which...

PAUL REAS IN CONVERSATION WITH DAVID HURN TINTERN, FEBRUARY 2019 (released on the Ffoton podcast 8 April 2019) Paul Reas has a long career in UK photography during which he has worked as an editorial and advertising photographer before moving into education. Respected for his gritty documentation of the UK’s working class and consumerism, Paul’s colour work is considered part of the new movement i...

JOANNE COATES IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG HAVERFORDWEST, JANUARY 2019 (released on the Ffoton podcast 16 March 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...