Ffotogallery is the national development agency for photography in

Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the Bristol Channel to the south. It had a population in ...

. It was established in 1978 and since June 2019 has been based in

Cathays Cathays ( ; Welsh: officially ''Cathays'' but also , 'the constant meadow') is a district and community in the centre of Cardiff, capital of Wales. It is an old suburb of Cardiff established in 1875. It is very densely populated and contain ...

, Cardiff. It also commissions touring exhibitions nationally and internationally. Its current director is David Drake. From 2003 to 2019 Ffotogallery was based in

Turner House Gallery Turner House Gallery is an art gallery in Penarth, near Cardiff, Wales. Details The gallery was built in 1887/8, designed by architect Edwin Seward in a Queen Anne style for the rich local flour merchant, James Pyke Thompson. Pyke Thompson used ...

in Penarth.

Background

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Ffotogallery is a national organisation and has an exhibition programme featuring artists from Wales and the rest of the world. It features touring exhibitions, collaborations with other organisations and galleries, print and online publishing and an education and outreach programme. Ffotogallery also works with film and video, digital media and installation. In 2003 it acquired

in Penarth, near Cardiff, from the

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and used it for photography-based exhibitions. In June 2019 it moved from Turner House to

, Cardiff. Ffotogallery receives regular funding from the Arts Council of Wales, for example receiving £198,688 in 2015/16 and a similar amount in 2016/2017.

Diffusion: Cardiff International Festival of Photography

Ffotogallery organises Diffusion: Cardiff International Festival of Photography. The biannual festival was held in 2013, focusing on Europe, in 2015 when the title was "Looking for America" and in 2017 when under the theme 'Revolution.' The fourth instalment took place in April 2019 with the theme Sound + Vision, exploring the relationship between sound, photography and lens-based media.

Commissions

Major Ffotogallery commissions made in and about Wales over the last three decades include The Valleys Project, A470 and Barrage. These have featured alongside important new work made in single artist projects such as

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, Peter Finnemore, Willie Doherty,

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, Wendy McMurdo, John Davies,

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and

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. Many works commissioned by Ffotogallery are now held in national collections in Wales, or have been acquired for

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and Arts Council collections.

Exhibitions

Some of the exhibitions Ffotogallery has hosted at Turner House include: * January–February 2004: ''Urban Dreams,'' John Davies * January–February 2008: ''Niagara,''

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* August–October 2009: ''Cockroach Diary and Other Stories,''

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* March–April 2010: ''Lost for Words,'' Peter Fraser * June–August 2010: ''Villes/Cities,''

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* January–February 2012: ''Works ion Memory,''

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* July–September 2013: ''Early Photographic Works,'' Daniel Meadows * November 2013–January 2014: ''Stasis,'' Trine Søndergaard * March–May 2014: ''“Day Dreaming About The Good Times?”,''

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* February–March 2014 ''We make the path by walking'' Paul Gaffney and ''Clear of People'' Michal Iwanowski. * July–August 2014 ''The Black Hole & Hiraeth''. Janire Nájera and Gareth Phillips. * March–April 2017: ''Kanu's Gandhi'' * June 2017: ''A Million Mutinies Later,'' Various * July–August 2017: ''The Queen, The Chairman and I'' * October–December 2017: ''Land/Sea,'' Mike Perry * January 2018: ''Still Lives: Consumed,'' Dawn Woolley

References

External links

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Diffusion: Cardiff International Festival of Photography
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