Gwyl LENS Festival
The National Library of Wales
National Library of Wales
Aberystwyth Ceredigion SY23 3BU 01970 632 800
Times: 10.00-16.15
Prices: General:£20
Student:£14
All tickets include lunch
Student:£14
All tickets include lunch
Date:
1-1 Nov 08
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Lens 4 - A Sense of Place
Festival of Welsh Documentary Photography
Saturday, 1 November 2008
10.00 - 16.00
Some of Wales’ most renowned photographers will give illustrated talks based on the theme ’A Sense of Place’ at this year’s Lens festival on 1 November.
Lens Timetable
10.00 - 10.30
Registration
10.30 - 11.15
Paul Cabuts - a researcher for the European Centre for Photographic Research at the Newport School of Art 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.
11.15 - 11.30
Coffee
11.30 - 12.15
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.
12.15 - 12.45
Tribute to Philip Jones Griffiths - A tribute through film and photograph to one
of Wales’ most famous photographers, Philip Jones Griffiths.
12.45 - 14.00
Lunch
14.00 - 14.45
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 Tydfil as he saw the essence of his Welsh hometown being torn apart by redevelopment.
14.45 - 15.30
Jeremy Moore - a freelance landscape photographer, based in mid-Wales, who specialises in the Welsh landscape. Jeremy will discuss his latest project Between earth and heaven focusing on the industrial man-made and inherently wild landscape of Blaenau Ffestiniog.
15.30 - 16.00
Question and answer session
LENS is the only festival of its kind in Wales creating an 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. The National Library is home to 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.
Tickets
(Lunch included in the price)
General £20
Students (NUS/UMCA) £14
Tickets available by contacting the Library Shop on 01970 632 548.