Imaging the Bible in Wales

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I have always enjoyed the immediacy and convenience of recording things that I see by photography. This is all the more the case now with the advent of digital photography.

When I was still at school I once read that if you wanted a career as a photographer, you should get a degree in marketing and then buy a camera. Despite such temporary discouragement, photography has remained part of my artistic practice, and as a way of building up an image library. Over the last few years photography has been increasingly part of my work on the two major research projects, in particular with the Imaging the Bible in Wales Project, for which I do most of the photography.

Photography for the Imaging the Bible in Wales Project (2005–7): Harry Stammers, Symbol of St Matthew, St Michael's College, Llandaff, Cardiff; Florence Camm, Virgin and Child with children, Church of St Thomas a Beckett, Wolvesnewton, Monmouthshire; John Coates Carter, Reredos at Church of St Teilo, Cardiff; Christ Pantocrater, Church of St Nicholas, Cardiff
Photography for the Visual Culture of Wales CD-ROM Medieval Vision, Margam Stones Museum, 2002, and Nia Rhosier, Hen Capel John Hughes, Pontrobert, Powys, 2003

As the way in which I made digital images developed, photographs became increasingly part of the process, and in some cases the end result as well, such as the work exhibited at The Riverfront, Newport, in 2007.

Books 2007 | River Usk

During 2007 I was commissioned to photograph some of the churches owned by the Friends of Friendless Churches for an anniversary book, and I was also collecting images for the Poets of the Nobility Project booklet.

Photography for the Friends of Friendless Churches (2007). Above: Church of St Mary, Tal-y-llyn; below Church of SSS Afran, Ieuan & Sannan, Llantrisant, Anglesey