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Imaging the Bible in Wales

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Work – Photography

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 undertook most of the photography.

Symbol of St Matthew by Harry Stammers.   Virgin and Child, stained glass by Florence Camm.

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

Painted reredos by John Coates Carter.   Christ Pantocrater
View of the Stones in the Margam Stones Museum.   Portrait of Nia Wyn Jones.
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 the creation of 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

Imaging the Bible in Wales

Photography for the Friends of Friendless Churches

CD-ROM Medieval Vision

 

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