A legacy project financially supported and co-created by the family of Tom Higgins, who took his own life in early 2021 and was a young, talented and aspiring professional photographer.
A gathering of significant figures and organisations connected to the medium of Welsh photography, will work alongside MADE to produce the new scheme, alongside FFotogallery’s ffocws scheme which launched this year.
Cardiff MADE, a not for profit grassroots organisation in its 10th year, have worked together with Tom's family and former tutor Faye Chamberlain, to create something inspirational, borne of Tom's passion for taking photographs. Tom’s subject matter was determined by his political leanings and shaped by a particular sense of humour into a visual language he was beginning to understand as his own. Exhibiting at MADE Gallery in their open Winter exhibition of 2020, marked an important step / stage in that process for him, as did selling his work in terms of validating audience connection.
Prosiect cymynrodd gyda chefnogaeth ariannol ac wedi ei greu ar y cyd a theulu Tom Higgins, a gymerodd ei fywyd ei hun yn 2021, ffotograffydd ifanc a thalentog.
Bydd criw o unigolion a sefydliadau arwyddocaol sydd â chysylltiad i ffotograffiaeth Gymreig yn gweithio ochr wrth ochr cynllun ffocws Ffotogallery a lansiwyd eleni.
Bu Cardiff MADE, sefydliad dielw ar lawr gwlad yn ei 10fed flwyddyn, yn gweithio gyda theulu Tom a’i gyn-diwtor Faye Chamberlain i greu rhywbeth ysbrydoledig, yn deillio o angerdd Tom dros dynnu lluniau. Pennwyd pwnc Tom gan ei dueddiadau gwleidyddol a’i siapio gan ei hiwmor i mewn i iaith weledol a dechreuodd ddeall fel ei iaith ei hun. Roedd arddangos yng Ngaleri MADE yn arddangosfa agored Gaeaf 2020 yn nodi cam pwysig yn y broses hon iddo, fel y gwnaeth gwerthu ei waith o ran dilysu cysylltiad cynulleidfa.
“Aspiring photographers who are outside of education, often lack support and advice in terms of presenting and curating their own work, and the opportunity to maximise the power that a photograph as an object once presented has, in terms of its innate resonance and power beyond the digital stream, is something we'd like to Nurture through this platform opportunity. “ Zoë Gingell, M.A.D.E Gallery
“Mae ffotograffwyr uchelgeisiol sydd tu allan i addysg, yn aml yn brin o gefnogaeth a chyngor o ran cyflwyno a churadu eu gwaith eu hunain, ac mae’r cyfle i fwyhau'r pŵer sydd gan ffotograff unwaith y mae’n cael ei gyflwyno, o ran ei atsain naturiol a phŵer tu hwnt i’r ffrwd ddigidol, yn rhywbeth hoffem feithrin drwy’r cyfle hwn.”
Zoë Gingell, M.A.D.E Gallery
Working with figures coming from the rich plethora of photographic courses in South Wales as well as professional self-taught names, the value of this new platform is not only to students past and future in terms of inspiring them to either begin, continue or pick up photography again, (maybe having completed a course), but for those outside education. The initiative is a means to further develop on their vision and journey through photography, as a crucial part of sustaining individual voices.
Gan weithio gydag unigolion o’r plethora o gyrsiau ffotograffiaeth yn Ne Cymru yn ogystal ag enwau proffesiynol hunanaddysgedig, mae’r platfform newydd yn fudd nid yn unig i fyfyrwyr o’r gorffennol a’r dyfodol o ran eu hysbrydoli i un ai dechrau, parhau neu ailddechrau ffotograffiaeth, (efallai ar ôl cwblhau cwrs), ond i’r rhai tu allan i addysg. Mae’r cynllun yn ffordd i ddatblygu bellach eu gweledigaeth a siwrnai drwy ffotograffiaeth, fel rhan allweddol o gynnal lleisiau unigol.
A core team comprising MADE curators Zoë Gingell, Josh Leeson, Tom’s former Tutor Faye Chamberlain and fellow ex-Ffotogallery Tutor Sarah Hayton, in consultation with the wider photographic community, have constructed the platform as a mentoring programme. Drawing on a pool of expertise, from professional photographers and educators across the city we will steer the four chosen participants towards presenting a body of work developed over a period of 6 months from Easter next year until the group exhibition in a year's time.
Accompanying the mentoring will be a series of lectures and workshops held by inspiring photographers with links to the city of Cardiff at Ffotogallery from January - April 2023, in order to inspire and attract participants in the scheme.
Award winning names in photography are on board already ; Abbie Trayler Smith, Clementine Schneidermann, Michal Iwanowksi, Paul Reas, all with links to South Wales,
Acting as Mentors for the selected 4 chosen participants to work towards the exhibition in 2023 we have established photographers Faye Chamberlain (also Tom’s former tutor), Sarah Hayton, Michal Iwanowski, Paul Reas, as well as Sian Addicott and the names above.
Ffotogallery are also in the frame, as a host venue for presenting a series of accompanying talks to introduce the mentoring pool throughout the open call period which begins in January 2023 and ends on Easter Sunday. The shortlisted applicants will be invited to meet the mentoring panel before 4 selected participants will begin work on a new body of work for 6 months, leading to an exhibition in November 2024.
Mae tîm craidd sy’n cynnwys curaduron MADE Zoë Gingell, Josh Leeson, cyn diwtor Tom Faye Chamberlain a chyn diwtor Ffotogallery Sarah Hayton, a mewn ymgynghoriad â’r gymuned ffotograffiaeth ehangach, wedi creu'r platfform i fod yn rhaglen mentora. Gan dynnu ar gronfa o arbenigedd, o ffotograffwyr proffesiynol ac addysgwyr ledled y ddinas byddwn yn bugeilio'r pedwar detholedig tuag at gyflwyno corff o waith wedi ei ddatblygu dros gyfnod o 6 mis o Basg nesaf tan yr arddangosfa grŵp mewn blwyddyn.
I gyd-fynd a’r mentora bydd cyfres o ddarlithoedd a gweithdai yn cael eu cynnal yn Ffotogallery o Ionawr- Ebrill 2023 gan ffotograffwyr ysbrydoledig gyda chysylltiadau i Gaerdydd i ysbrydoli a denu cyfranogwyr yn y cynllun.
Mae enwau arobryn yn y byd ffotograffiaeth wedi ymuno yn barod; Abbie Trayler Smith, Clementine Schneidermann, Michal Iwanowksi, Paul Reas, i gyd â chysylltiadau â De Cymru.
Y mentoriaid ar gyfer y 4 unigolyn dethol a fydd yn geithio tuag at yr arddangosfa yn 2023 yw Faye Chamberlain (cyn-diwtor Tom) , Sarah Hayton, Michal Iwanowski, Paul Reas.
Mae Ffotogallery hefyd yn y ffrâm, fel lleoliad gwesteiwr ar gyfer cyflwyno cyfres o sgyrsiau cysylltiedig i gyflwyno'r pwll mentora drwy gydol y cyfnod galwadau agored sy'n dechrau ym mis Ionawr 2023 ac yn gorffen ar Sul y Pasg. Bydd yr ymgeiswyr sydd ar y rhestr fer yn cael eu gwahodd i gwrdd â'r panel mentora cyn y bydd 4 o gyfranogwyr dethol yn dechrau ar eu gwaith ar gorff newydd o waith am 6 mis, gan arwain at arddangosfa ym mis Tachwedd 2024.
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