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Work has begun on a year long documentary film project. I am making a film titled 'Pride In Our Valley', which follows the close knit communities in the Upper Dulais Valley, South Wales.
The area known for it's involvement with the Lesbian & Gays, who supported the miners during the 1984/85 miners' strike. Onllwyn Welfare Hall became the focal point for the Lesbian & Gays Support The Miners, a group of activists based in London, to donate substantial support. The story was portrayed in a theatrical cinematic film 'Pride'.
'Pride In Our Valley' will be completed in September 2019 and premiered during 2020.
Although the coal mines have gone, there is still a strong sense of belonging and the community still show strength and solidarity, in an area where work opportunities is limited.
The area known for it's involvement with the Lesbian & Gays, who supported the miners during the 1984/85 miners' strike. Onllwyn Welfare Hall became the focal point for the Lesbian & Gays Support The Miners, a group of activists based in London, to donate substantial support. The story was portrayed in a theatrical cinematic film 'Pride'.
'Pride In Our Valley' will be completed in September 2019 and premiered during 2020.
Although the coal mines have gone, there is still a strong sense of belonging and the community still show strength and solidarity, in an area where work opportunities is limited.
Exciting new photo festival to be held at Oriel Colwyn, north Wales.
www.northerneyefestival.co.uk
www.northerneyefestival.co.uk
I'm working on putting photos and text together for my first 40 years work of photographing. Lots of assignments and commissioned work and so many happy memories.
Hope part 2 will come in forty years time, but I shall then be 97!!!!
Hope part 2 will come in forty years time, but I shall then be 97!!!!
'Let Us Pray' being despatched. www.2tenbooks.com/let-us-pray.html
26 June 2017 : Publicity photo today. I'd rather be behind the camera!
Great offer on 2 of my new limited edition signed photo books at 2Ten Books.
Take a look.
Take a look.
2 May 2017. Well I didn't meet my target at Kickstarter, but I'm excited about 2 new titles to be released late this month. 2Ten Books asked me to look through all my negatives and choose photos for a book. I decided to pitch my chapels series shot in 1990-1992. The project began with a series of 5x4 format landscapes and then expanded to documenting the people who visited these historic buildings. After some discussion, it has been decided to make 2 titles. Have a look at the covers below.
Very pleased to have my photos of the Welsh industrial coastline published.
When I was commissioned to make this series, I decided to photograph it all at night, using spot lamps to illuminate the respective subjects. I didn't know how it was going to turn out, but it was a fascinating experience over a 12 month period.
I began my career as a photographer in 1978 and this was the first major body of work using a digital camera!
When I was commissioned to make this series, I decided to photograph it all at night, using spot lamps to illuminate the respective subjects. I didn't know how it was going to turn out, but it was a fascinating experience over a 12 month period.
I began my career as a photographer in 1978 and this was the first major body of work using a digital camera!
Advanced orders for my book 'The Welsh Industrial Coastline at Night' - available early February 2017. Don't miss out, it's a signed limited edition.
Limited edition hard cover coffee table book
Pre order now available at : http://www.2tenbooks.com/big-k.html
Exhibition at Kickplate Gallery opens on 8 October 2016. Private view is on 15 October.
Pre orders for Last Days at Big k will begin during mid October @ www.2tenbooks.com Hard cover book 250pp with 200 images capturing life at the last deep coal mine in the UK. This is a limited addition publication.
Coming soon
Roger Tiley's early images of the valley he grew up in. The photographs were captured in the mining communities in south Wales during the 1980s.
Roger Tiley's early images of the valley he grew up in. The photographs were captured in the mining communities in south Wales during the 1980s.
First 500 books of 'Travelling Through Coal Creek' sold in 2 weeks - thank you
Great offer on pre orders of my new book 'Travelling Through Coal Creek'. Check it out at www.2tenbooks.com
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'Thirty Years Ago' now available at :
www.2tenbooks.com
www.2tenbooks.com
Making work prints and seeing my Kellingley pictures in print for the first time. It's always good, I find, to be able to lay all the prints on the table and select finals and work on layout etc.
New book title hopefully to be published , documenting the last few weeks at Kellingley colliery, north Yorkshire, the last deep coal mine to close in the uk. Sneak preview - 'Last Days at Big K'
I've been invited to represent Wales at the Interceltique Festival this year, held in Lorient, Brittany, France.
Online feature, Diffusion Photo Festival.
http://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/7856/does-the-american-dream-still-exist
http://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/7856/does-the-american-dream-still-exist
BJP feature on the Diffusion Festival of Photography.
http://www.bjp-online.com/2015/10/diffusion-festival-cardiff-2015/
http://www.bjp-online.com/2015/10/diffusion-festival-cardiff-2015/
'One image' on the Ffoton website. I talk about a photograph from my industrial coastline series.
http://www.ffoton.wales/one-image/2016/1/roger-tiley
http://www.ffoton.wales/one-image/2016/1/roger-tiley
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A survivor from Pantglas School in Aberfan. Her brother and sister were killed in the same school on the day the tip collapsed on the village of Aberfan, in the south Wales valleys, on 21 October 1966.
Nealy 50 years on, the village of Aberfan has changed. The Merthyr Vale colliery closed in the late 1980s and was one of the main employers in the area. |
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One image conversation, on Ffoton website. http://www.ffoton.wales/one-image/
I recently returned from Yorkshire. I've been making a photographic documentation of Kellingley colliery, the last deep pit in the UK. It closed on 18 December 2015, bringing to an end a tradition of deep coal mining that stretches over 200 years.
The work was commissioned by a London based film company and hopefully, a book will be published in the new year. I shall keep you posted!
The work was commissioned by a London based film company and hopefully, a book will be published in the new year. I shall keep you posted!
Arena seminars 2016, in Bournemouth, UK
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http://arenaphotographers.com/index.php/arena-seminar-2016/
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International Photo Festival in and around Cardiff, Wales. The title to the festival is 'Looking for America'. 10 of my images from Appalachian Coal Camps will be exhibited. http://diffusionfestival.org/
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Images awaiting collection for the International Photo Festival to be held in Cardiff, Wales.
This year's Diffusion, is titled 'Looking for America'. A selection of my work on the Appalachian coal camps will be on display as part of the festival, which begins on 1 October 2015. |
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BBC Wales news feature on Big Pit installations. Reporter : Carwyn Jones
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-33896642
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The Big Pit photo installations are now on show. If you get the chance to visit, please take a selfie and send it to : rogertiley@yahoo.co.uk
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Virtual exhibition catalogue for Big Pit installations
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Photographic installations at Big Pit Mining Museum beginning early July 2015. This body of work will be situated in the coal mine environment, placed on corrugated panels and external walls. A virtual exhibition catalogue will also be available on this website.
Please try and visit the show and take a selfie next to the photos, or find the images situated throughout the south Wales coalfield. |
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Photo coursesI'm in the process of developing some photo courses which will be available to photographers and videographers in the near future. I shall offer 1:1 tuition on an hourly basis, but this will expand to small groups. Event venues for group workshops will be announced over the coming months.
If there are any queries, please let me know at: rogertiley@yahoo.co.uk |
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Senghenydd mine disasters
In 1901, 81 men and boys were killed at the Universal Colliery. But the colliery was yet to face another major explosion underground. In 1913, 439 were killed by an underground explosion. The community of Senghenydd remembered the fallen on 22 May 2015, and to remind the young children of the community of the terrible toll on life that the mining industry brought. |
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The Cambrian mine disaster
Today, 17 may 2015, marks the 50th anniversary of the Cambrian pit disaster when 31 miners were killed after an explosion underground in number 1 pit. The Cambrian disaster, which took place in 1965, was the last major loss of lives in coal mining in the south Wales valleys. |
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During the 1984/85 miners' strike, a group based in London, established the Lesbians & Gays Support the Miners fund. They visited a small mining community in the Dulais valley in south Wales, forming an unlikely bond that would last to the present day.
LGSM revisited the Dulais Valley on 15 March 2015 to attend an evening of entertainment with the re formed Dulais Valley Miners' Support Group. This story, portrayed in the film Pride, is a true story of a community fighting for their pits. LGSM tirelessly collected to help Dulais valley miners and their families survive through an historic period in Welsh industrial history. |
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Sorry, now sold out Approx. 60 minutes of footage capturing Roger Tiley's journey across the south Wales valleys to photograph former miners and their families he first captured on film thirty years ago. All proceeds will go towards the production of a film that will be made by a community in the south Wales valleys. Advanced orders can be made now - the release date is May 2015 (limited edition) |
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Three images from the 1984/85 miners' strike
'Thirty Years Ago' project - a series of portraits of former miners and their families, photographed at old colliery sites.
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The former miners of Maerdy and the local community marched to open a new memorial, remembering miners who lost their lives at the pit.
I photographed the Maerdy miners marching back to work after the bitter yearlong miners' strike. The march brought back many memories for me and although the last pit in the Rhondda valley has long gone, the people of Maerdy still stand proud and remember the history of the area, but also look forward to the new generation keeping former mining communities alive. |
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'Pride'
A new film depicting the story of two unlikely communities joining to fight against the Thatcher government during the 1980s. Set in London and the Dulais valley during the 1984/85 miners' strike, a group of lesbian and gay activists collected money for the miners in a small mining community in south Wales. Sian James, a miner's wife, is a central character in the film, played by Jessica Gunning. Sian went on to study at Swansea University and subsequently was elected MP for Swansea East. Last year, I had the pleasure of photographing Sian and also interviewing her for a short film I'm making. It is a truly touching film, that tells the story so well. It equals my favourite film, 'October Sky'. |
Portraits placed in the landscape for time-lapse sequences. The works will feature in a film about the 1984/85 miners' strike. /portrait-instilations.html
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Radio broadcast 2014
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A short film, filmed & produced by Michael Lander
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Exhibition news - March 2014 - Solo show at Aberystwyth Arts Centre 'The Manufactured Coast-scape'. The last venue to stage this body of work on it's long tour.
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BBC Wales news item about 'Thirty Years Ago' project. To view, go to :
www.bbc.co.uk : search-Roger Tiley |
Channel 4 news - February 2014 - I shall be filming with Channel 4 news during February, as they wish to make a short feature about my 'Thirty Years Ago' project.http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid601325122001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAAAEabvr4~,Wtd2HT-p_Vh4qBcIZDrvZlvNCU8nxccG&bclid=0&bctid=3297084854001
'Thirty Years Ago' - (live project)
Portraits of miners in the south Wales valleys thirty years after the 1984/85 miners' strike.
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Street photography, Bristol
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A college trip to Bristol - September 2013.
Assignment work for my students. I also captured some images. I've not done any street photography for quite a few years. The last street photo project was in Venice. I really enjoyed it in Bristol! |
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Cardiff International Photo Festival 2013 - images from the 'Valleys Project' Roger Tiley
The Manufactured Coast-scape, one man show at the Milton Gallery, London, 2013.
The touring exhibition moved to London in March to show for a month at the Milton Gallery. The work, supported by the Arts Council of Wales documents the industrial coastline of Wales by night.
The touring exhibition moved to London in March to show for a month at the Milton Gallery. The work, supported by the Arts Council of Wales documents the industrial coastline of Wales by night.
The Manufactured Coast-scape (touring exhibition)
Samples of TV & radio coverage for The Manufactured Coast-scape
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