open AND wELCOMING VISITORS 6 OCTOBER 2023 ONWARDS
Dydd Mercher, Dydd Gwener, Dydd Sadwrn: 1.30 – 4.00
USUAL OPENING TIMES:
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1.30 – 4.00
NOW ALSO HOME TO OUR UNRIVALLED COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS FOR SALE
EXHIBITION - ends 2 MARCH 2024
PETE DAVIS
The GREAT LITTLE TIN SHEDS OF WALES
6 OCTOBER, OPENING EVENT 3.30PM - 5.30PM 2023
As part of his major retrospective at 70 at the National Library of Wales, the sheds held their own amongst the dramatic scenes of Cader Idris and the forest swamps of Vermont (and Wales) and, alongside his earlier Cardiff work, emphasised that he is a documentary photographer after all
“Documentary photography is all about using the medium to help reveal and understand the world about us, and how groups and individuals interact with this. This has been my main interest for over 50 years and it is the thread that runs through all my bodies of work.”
“I suppose this collection is what you would call a taxonomy but it’s Pete photographing sheds like he photographs mountains or woods and of course they are not just sheds, sometimes they’re landscapes with sheds, sometimes commercial stores, sometimes they’re on wheels and one’s a toilet in a field. Some are lived in, some are falling down. They’re beautiful photographs.”
AT THIS OPENING WE WILL LAUNCH ‘The Great Little Tin Sheds of Wales’ catalogUE
THE ORIGINAL ‘THE GREAT LITTLE TIN SHEDS OF WALES’, WAS SELF-PUBLISHED BY PETE, AND IS NOW OUT OF PRINT AND DIFFICULT TO SOURCE. THIS ‘REDUX’ EDITION INCLUDES NEW ESSAYS BY SUE BEARDSMORE, WHO LOOKS BACK TO THE FIRST SHOW OF THIS WORK SHE CURATED IN CARDIFF’S FFOTOGALERY AND GEOFF YOUNG, CO-CURATOR WITH DIANE BAILEY OF THIS NEW SHOW SELECTED FROM pETE dAVIS’S ENTIRE COLLECTION OF THE GREAT LITTLE TINS SHEDS WORK.
The Great Little Tin Sheds of Wales (redux)
THIS IS A FFOTON WALES INITIATIVE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PETE DAVIS AND FFOTOGALERI Y GOFEB.
AND IN PARALLEL OUR 2023 OPEN PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBTION
‘TIN SHEDS / SIEDIAU TUN’
OPENS IN pEN’RALLT gALLERY bOOKSHOP, 3.30 - 5.30PM
FRIDAY, 6 OCTOBER 2023
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