WHAT’S NEW/UK PHOTOGRAPHY#2
RizHoma.gallery, Milan, Italy
RizHoma.gallery presents WHAT’S NEW/UK PHOTOGRAPHY#2 the second and last step of a show which investigates the latest tendencies in documentary photography in UK. This episode offers an overview of the current documentary practice in the south Wales ‘Valleys’ region, featuring works by Welsh photographers Gawain Barnard, David Barnes, Paul Cabuts and Jack Latham.
From the 6th to the 27th November 2013 RizHoma.gallery is hosting the second and last step of WHAT’S NEW/UK PHOTOGRAPHY, a show, curated by Marina Colajanni, which aims to perform an investigation of young UK photography, focusing on the rewardable documentary tradition as it has matured since the very early years.
While the first episode of the show has been a chance to present works by some of youngest photographers who have graduated from the Documentary Photography course at the University of South Wales, Newport. WHAT’S NEW/UK PHOTOGRAPHY#2 offers instead an overview of current documentary practice in the south Wales ‘Valleys’ region- the environment in which the famous university was born and continues to develop its education and research programme.
The second step features works by the Welsh photographers Gawain Barnard, David Barnes, Paul Cabuts and Jack Latham, alumni and researchers from the University who are presenting a remarkable insight into the culture of the region through diverse responses. Gawain Barnard’s series ‘Maybe We’ll be Soldiers’ is a story of realization, self-doubt, expectations and coming of age told through a seductive mix of portraiture and detail in the landscape. David Barnes’ long-term, partly autobiographical, ‘King Tide’ blends fact and fiction by the weaving of complex fragments of family and community life, while Paul Cabuts’ series, ‘Poles’, looks at both the structure and locations of tele-communications poles in the south Wales valleys in reference to their contemporary and historical social and cultural meaning. Finally, Jack Latham looks at the possibilities of community and memory in Wales in a personal journey through a small site of family history in flux.