Walter Waygood

Walter Waygood (b. 1956) was brought up in Wales and began his photographic career using an old fashioned large format mahogany and brass Gandolfi camera. Photography was used to provide a commentary of working class life during the 1970s. His interest in photography as a form of social commentary led him to make more political statements through his pictures during the miners’ strike of the 1980’s. He graduated in BA Fine Art at Newport, and MA in Cardiff, and worked as a community artist in Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda, Aberdare and Pontypridd during the 1980s/early 90s. For twenty years he was Head of Art at Brockenhurst College in Hampshire, before returning to Dowlais in 2015, where he continues to live and work.