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COALFACES PUBLISHED
This arresting series of documentary photographs shows the life and landscape of five small settlements in South Wales. These communities in the Afan Valley, after the pit closures, had to deal with high levels of unemployment and found themselves with severe problems of adjustment.
Over several years Tina Carr & Annemarie Schöne worked with the residents of the valley to document the place they call home. These photographs, gritty, beautiful, empathetic, sad and humorous, reflect a hardy and feisty attitude, shared by the residents despite the adversity they are forced to face and provide us with a much needed reminder of a community all to easily forgotten about.
The accompanying DVD is a film entitled 'The Thin End of the Wedge' made with the communities of the Upper Afan Valley in 1992 & 1993 funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Coalfaces ISBN 978-1-905762-54-5
Parthian 2008
www.parthianbooks.co.uk
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