The first Ffoto Cymru: Wales International Festival of Photography opens in venues across Wales in October 2024. In a society where women artists and photographers are still regularly overlooked, the first Ffoto Cymru points the spotlight towards female photographers and artists using photography. With the theme What You See is What You Get? the festival questions how we see, understand and use images and how they shape our identities and culture, from historical archives to AI and modern technologies.
At the centre of Ffoto Cymru is a major survey of work from the last 50 years by one of Wales’s most influential photographers, Marian Delyth showing at Ffotogallery in Cardiff. Titled Darnau | Fragments, it examines the profound impact of Delyth’s photographic journey over the past five decades, documenting Welsh life and culture, and featuring activism, social justice, and peace campaigns in Wales and beyond. The press view of this show is at Ffotogallery on Thursday 3 October from 2-5pm.
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The other venues in Swansea, Merthyr Tydfil, Penarth, Wrexham, Ruthin, and Carmarthen present newly commissioned work by four younger female Welsh or Wales-based photographic artists – Ada Marino, Adéọlá, Holly Davey and Jessie Edwards-Thomas. Finally, a collaboration with the Foto Féminas network (which provides a platform to increase the visibility of Latin American and Caribbean female/non-binary photographers) showcases work by Luiza Possamai Kons from Brazil and Julieta Anaut and Lorena Marchetti, both from Argentina. All three are showing in the UK for the first time.
Listings details (subject to slight changes)
3 October – 14 December 2024 | Marian Delyth: Darnau | Fragments | Ffotogallery, Cardiff
5 – 31 October | Foto Féminas: Julieta Anaut, Luiza Possamai Kons, Lorena Marchetti | Elysium Gallery, Swansea
10 October – 14 November | Adéọlá | Cyfarthfa Castle, Merthyr Tydfil
5 – 30 October | Jessie Edwards-Thomas: Out of Sight, Out of Mind | Cemetery Chapel, Penarth
1 – 31 October | Holly Davey: In Plain Sight (Miss Jenkins?) | Amgueddfa Cymru, Cardiff
1 – 31 October | Ada Marino: Visible Repairs | Gaunt Francis Architects, Cardiff (street level, open 24hrs).
1 – 31 October | Ada Marino: Visible Repairs | Wrexham School of Art
1 – 31 October | Marian Delyth: Darnau Bach | Little Fragments | Yr Hen Lys, Ruthin
7 – 31 October | Ffoto Cymru Open Exhibition | Oriel y Bont, Treforest | Cardiff Metropolitan University, Llandaff Campus | Atrium, University of South Wales, Cardiff | Former Cranes’ Music Store, Swansea | Cardiff city-wide poster campaign
