New & Forthcoming
2025: A couple of major projects are due to be completed this year and will be added to this website as they appear.
The book on the work of Frederick Sommer which I am co-authoring with Hazel Donkin, has now been delivered to the publisher Routledge and we hope it will appear later this year. A major step forward was in April, 2024, when we undertook extensive research in Arizona. We spent a week in the Sommer Archive at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, and then stayed at the Sommer Foundation in Prescott where Naomi Lyons and Jeremy Cox were most welcoming. (The photograph here is of the cabin where the Sommers lived from 1939 onward.)
Secondly, my essay on ‘Ubu Animated’ for a major book on Surrealism and Animation, edited by Abigail Susik, is now to be published in June 2025 by Bloomsbury.
A number of items from 2024 have now been added here, with additional information and images.
The slideshow The Chartists in Newport (see links here under ‘Visual Culture’ and ‘Photoworks’) was shown at Newport Museum and Art Gallery as part of the exhibition ‘Representing the Rising’ from October 2023 to January 2024.
Opening on June 15, FfotoNewport showed a version of my 1981 work ‘A Royal Wedding in Newport’.
Offline magazine published my extended essay “‘Bargoed’ to Bargoed’ in a stand alone booklet, one of a series of essays on photography in Wales.
I participated in the exhibition Swansea Surreal at the Volcano Theatre in Swansea, which gave me the opportunity to revisit Contrariwise from 1986.
