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Festival Of Photography At National Library Of Wales

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Lens 4: A sense of Place takes place on the 1st November at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.

This is the fourth instalment of Lens: Festival of Documentary Photography, celebrating Welsh documentary photography. The festival aims to highlight the vast photographic collection held at the library and celebrates the work of four contemporary photographers currently working in Wales. The line-up will include: Robert Haines, Jeremy Moore, Paul Cabuts and Haydn Denman

Lens 2008 will consist of lectures by four contemporary documentary photographers, each photographer will give an illustrated talk of his photography projects related to this year’s theme, A sense of Place.

Robert Haines will discuss his critically acclaimed work Once upon a time in Wales a collection of evocative photographs taken around 1971-2 in Heolgerrig, Merthyr.

Jeremy Moore - a freelance landscape photographer will discuss his latest project Between heaven and earth focusing on the industrial man-made and inherently wild landscape of Blaenau Ffestiniog.

Paul Cabuts will look at the different perspectives of three photographers who photographed South Wales during the 1950’s; W. Eugene Smith, Robert Frank and Geoff Charles.

Haydn Denman, a freelance photographer and BAFTA winning cameraman who has travelled the world taking photographs of the exotic places and people he meets along the way.

Organisers of LENS explain that the festival is the perfect opportunity for professional and amateur photographers, archivists and collectors, historians and journalists to discuss photography in Wales and to learn more about the wealth of Welsh documentary photography held at The National Library of Wales through its extensive and unique collection of photographs.

This year’s festival will also include a tribute through film and photograph to one of Wales' most famous photographers, Philip Jones Griffiths.

According to Lens spokesperson Llinos Medi Jones, “Philip had been extremely supportive of the Lens festival and was one of our key note speakers and patrons. His passing is a great loss to the field of documentary photography but we hope to honour him in this year’s festival with a tribute consisting of footage of him at work from the moving image collection of The National Library of Wales”.

The National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, the home of the nation’s largest documentary photographic collection which contains over 800,000 images from the earliest photograph taken in Wales in 1841 to the works of current photographers.

Lens will take place on the 1st of November and tickets cost £20.
More information about Lens and tickets for the event are available from www.llgc.org.uk/lens08

Posted by Will Carleton
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