DAVID SHAW

Caeadda: a farming community in the dyfi valley

‘Caeadda’ consists of many of the photographs that David Shaw produced towards his MA in Photography at the London College of Communication and reflects his journalistic background.

Although this project started out as David’s MA subject, it is already of interest to the media, particularly bearing in mind the contemprary developments on the agricultural scene in Wales in relation to climate change, government intervention and the subsequent politicisation of the debate.

For David, farmers and the farming way of life is a story, one that needs to be told and there is often a thin dividing line between social documentary photography and photojournalism.

The photographs in this exhibition are a small percentage of that overall body of work. Photographs that end on gallery walls are often not those that end up in books or are given to the subjects and their families. There are conventions that influence selection and this is our response at a specific time and in a specific and very local place, to the work of an exciting and new, to us, young photographer, whose work we are very happy to exhibit in our two gallery spaces in Machynlleth.

ffotogaleri y gofeb
(3 doors along from Pen’rallt Bookshop)
Dydd Mercher, Dydd Gwener, Dydd Sadwrn
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday
11.00 - 12.30 / 1.30 - 3.00