To mark its 30th anniversary, Ffotogallery are presenting two exhibitions which celebrate commissioned work made in and about Wales during the last three decades. The selection reflects many distinctive and wide-ranging responses to a variety of circumstances during a period of dramatic social and economic change.

Highlights from group commissions including The Valleys Project, A470 and Barrage, figure alongside work made as part of one-person projects including Keith Arnatt, Catherine Yass and Bedwyr Williams.
Such projects speak of the national imagination, local and global politics, romanticism, travel and tourism, industrial decay, encounters between the rural and the urban, the centre and the periphery. A number of these commissions, and the photographic work that emerged,
provide alternative accounts of Wales and the state of visual culture that retain a contemporary relevance. Drawn from the Ffotogallery archive, national and private collections, works from these exhibitions provide a unique opportunity to revisit imagery that
has been influential in providing commentaries on the experience and picturing of place.

Part one I Hate Green, takes its title from a piece of graffiti found in Peter Fraser’s colour series made for The Valleys Project IV, commissioned in 1985. As a title it evokes concerns with the aesthetics and cultural politics associated with landscape traditions, a sense of
belonging and difference, sentiment and ambivalence, as well as tensions and dialogues between art and documentary.

Part 2 is called Fantasy & Denial and is on between 26 July - 31 August 2008.