Ffoton Wales

ALED JENKINS IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG CARDIFF, SOUTH WALES, JULY 2016 (released on the Ffoton podcast 1 September 2016) Aled Jenkins studied Photography and Film at Plymouth College of Art and Design before working as a photojournalist, specialising in covering conflicts around the world. In 1992, he returned to Wales to train as a television cameraman and has been freelance since 1997 - in...

MARC VALLÉE IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG CARDIFF, SOUTH WALES. MAY 2016 (released on the Ffoton podcast 1 August, 2016) Starting his photography career in gritty photojournalism, Marc Vallée is a London-based documentary photographer whose work explores the tension between public and private space in the context of contemporary youth culture. His sought-after limited edition Zines are held in t...

HUW JONES IN CONVERSATION WITH BRIAN CARROLL. NEWPORT, SOUTH WALES, JUNE 2016 (released on the Ffoton podcast 8 July 2016) Huw Jones is a busy man. Ffoton spent some time with Huw at his impressive studio just off the M4 in Newport South Wales. His roster of clients include many national and international companies who require levels of service and image quality of the highest order. Working with...

HUW JONES IN CONVERSATION WITH BRIAN CARROLL. NEWPORT, SOUTH WALES, JUNE 2016 (released on the Ffoton podcast 1 July 2016) Huw Jones is a busy man. Ffoton spent some time with Huw at his impressive studio just off the M4 in Newport South Wales. His roster of clients include many national and international companies who require levels of service and image quality of the highest order. Working with...

MARIAN DELYTH IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG. BLAENPLWYF, CEREDIGION. JUNE 2015 (released on the Ffoton podcast 31 May, 2016) Marian Delyth has worked as a freelance photographer and graphic designer from her studio in Blaenplwyf since 1982. She studied graphic design at Newport College of Art where she also took an active interest in photography - sitting in on guest talks arranged by David Hurn...

NIGEL PUGH IN CONVERSATION WITH BRIAN CARROLL. CARDIFF, SOUTH WALES, DECEMBER 2015 (released on the Ffoton podcast 1 May 2016) Based in Cardiff, Nigel Pugh is a Social and Environmental photographer with a passion for documenting and promoting the relationship between people and the ecology of the natural environment in and around their local communities. His event and documentary photography reco...

ROGER TILEY IN CONVERSATION WITH GLENN EDWARDS. YSTRADGYNLAIS, POWYS. JANUARY 2016 (released on the Ffoton podcast 9 April, 2016) Documentary photographer and film-maker Roger Tiley has lived in the South Wales valleys all of his life. Having studied photography under Magnum photographer David Hurn at Newport, he has worked on numerous commissions for national newspapers and magazines including wo...

ROGER TILEY IN CONVERSATION WITH GLENN EDWARDS. YSTRADGYNLAIS, POWYS. JANUARY 2016 (released on the Ffoton podcast 1 April, 2016) Documentary photographer and film-maker Roger Tiley has lived in the South Wales valleys all of his life. Having studied photography under Magnum photographer David Hurn at Newport, he has worked on numerous commissions for national newspapers and magazines including wo...

MIKE JACKSON IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG. PEMBROKESHIRE, DECEMBER 2015 (released on the Ffoton podcast 5 March, 2016) “I no longer believe that, for me, projects are important - as I feel that all work blends into each other. Ideas rise from ideas.” — Mike Jackson Michael Jackson is a Visual Artist and talented analogue photographer based in Pembrokeshire in West Wales. Perhaps best known for...

MIKE JACKSON IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG. PEMBROKESHIRE, DECEMBER 2015 (released on the Ffoton podcast 1 March, 2016) “I no longer believe that, for me, projects are important - as I feel that all work blends into each other. Ideas rise from ideas.” — Mike Jackson Michael Jackson is a Visual Artist and talented analogue photographer based in Pembrokeshire in West Wales. Perhaps best known for...

KEVIN MULLINS IN CONVERSATION WITH BRIAN CARROLL. MALMESBURY, ENGLAND. DECEMBER 2015 (released on the Ffoton podcast 5 February, 2016) Kevin Mullins is an acclaimed Documentary Wedding Photographer who hails from Newport in South Wales. His interest in people is clear from his candid and photojournalistic style and he was the first UK wedding photographer to be made an official FujiFilm X Photogra...

KEVIN MULLINS IN CONVERSATION WITH BRIAN CARROLL. MALMESBURY, ENGLAND. DECEMBER 2015 (released on the Ffoton podcast 1 February, 2016) Kevin Mullins is an acclaimed Documentary Wedding Photographer who hails from Newport in South Wales. His interest in people is clear from his candid and photojournalistic style and he was the first UK wedding photographer to be made an official FujiFilm X Photogra...

DAVID HURN IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG. TINTERN, MONMOUTHSHIRE, DECEMBER 2015 (released on the Ffoton Podcast 8 January 2016) David Hurn is still working, photographing and publishing at the age of 81 years and is regarded as one of Britain's most important reportage photographers. A self-taught photographer who began his career in 1955 as an assistant at the Reflex Agency, he gained his reput...

DAVID HURN IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG. TINTERN, MONMOUTHSHIRE, DECEMBER 2015 (released on the Ffoton Podcast 1 January 2016) David Hurn is still working, photographing and publishing at the age of 81 years and is regarded as one of Britain's most important reportage photographers. A self-taught photographer who began his career in 1955 as an assistant at the Reflex Agency, he gained his reput...

SEIMON PUGH-JONES IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG. LAUGHARNE, CARMARTHENSHIRE, APRIL 2015 (released on the Ffoton podcast 1 December, 2015) Based in the sleepy town of Laugharne in South West Wales, Seimon Pugh-Jones' passions for photography, Militaria and History have combined at various points in his career. He has worked for the Ministry of Defence in the UK, stills photographer on documentari...

REBECCA THOMAS IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG. CARDIFF, SOUTH WALES, SEPTEMBER 2015 (released on the Ffoton podcast 25 October 2015) 2015 has proven to be a whirlwind of activity and experience for up and coming photographer Rebecca Thomas. Although she's still studying for her photography Degree, Rebecca 'Sunflower Photography' keeps herself immersed in a wide variety of her own photography proj...

ELERI GRIFFITHS & DAVID PADDY IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG. LLANRWST, NORTH WALES, APRIL 2015 (released on the Ffoton podcast 2 October 2015) Tilt & Shift Photography is a photography collaboration between Eleri Griffiths and David Paddy who run their small gallery, workshop and darkroom in the lovely small town of Llanrwst in North Wales. Spending the majority of her time as a busy com...

JACK LATHAM IN CONVERSATION WITH BRIAN CARROLL. CARDIFF, SEPTEMBER 2015 (released on the Ffoton podcast 11 September 2015) Born and raised in Wales, Jack Latham studied Documentary photography at Newport before graduating in 2012 and moving to Brighton where he's now based as a freelance photographer. As a member of Welsh photography collective, 'A Fine Beginning', Jack's documentary photography p...

CHRIS TANCOCK IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG. PEMBROKESHIRE, JUNE 2015 (released on the Ffoton podcast 4 September, 2015) Part 2 of 2 "I'm a black and white photographer", says Chris Tancock. Based near the beautiful small City of St Davids in Pembrokeshire, Chris currently works within a five mile radius of his small family cottage which also hosts a gallery with a selection of his work. Popular...

CHRIS TANCOCK IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG. PEMBROKESHIRE, JUNE 2015 (released on the Ffoton podcast 29 August, 2015) Part 1 of 2 "I'm a black and white photographer", says Chris Tancock. Based near the beautiful small City of St Davids in Pembrokeshire, Chris currently works within a five mile radius of his small family cottage which also hosts a gallery with a selection of his work. Popular w...

KEITH MORRIS IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG. ABERYSTWYTH, WEST WALES, JUNE 2015 Keith Morris (1958 - 2019) (released on the Ffoton podcast 31 July 2015) Keith Morris was a commercial photographer who lived and worked in the seaside town of Aberystwyth. His main area of focus was the commercial and news market, deriving a significant amount of income from stock photography. Keith used his expertis...

DAN WOOD IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG. BRIDGEND, SOUTH WALES, FEBRUARY 2015 (released on the Ffoton podcast 26 June 2015) Dan Wood is a documentary photographer living in Bridgend, South Wales. Working exclusively in film, Dan is a member of the Documenting Britain Collective and has produced a wide-ranging body of work on different themes but his best known, and probably most controversial, is...

ROB HUDSON IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG. BRIDGEND, SOUTH WALES, DECEMBER 2014 (released on the Ffoton podcast 31 May 2015) Rob Hudson is an artist and photographer based in Cardiff and was our first interviewee as part of the Ffoton project. We interviewed Rob on location at BlackMill wood near Bridgend which inspired his enigmatic and poetical work on Mametz Wood: a battle where so many Welsh...

CHALKIE DAVIES IN CONVERSATION WITH EMYR YOUNG. CARDIFF, SOUTH WALES, APRIL 2015 (released on the Ffoton podcast 5 May 2015) "Today... the worst thing is the ability to take lots of pictures." - Chalkie Davies Making a return to Wales from his home in New York to oversee preparations and the launch of his Retrospective exhibition "Chalkie Davies Photographer: The NME Years" in National Museum Wale...

MATT BOTWOOD IN CONVERSATION WITH ROB HUDSON. BRECON, SOUTH WALES, JANUARY 2015 (released on the Ffoton podcast 1 May 2015) Matt Botwood is a professional landscape photographer based in a remote part of the Brecon Beacons in south Wales. As someone who scouts and works daily in the landscape where he has based his family home, Matt can justifiably be referred to as a true 'Landscape Photographer'...