Our view is outward looking, with an exhibition programme featuring artists from Wales and the rest of the world.
Ffocws
Launched in 2022, Ffocws is Ffotogallery’s annual development programme for graduates and emerging artists, consisting of mentoring and presentation of work.
Ffotogallery 1-2-1’s
Ffotogallery 1-2-1’s are informal advice sessions to help emerging artists and photographers outside of full time education with their practice and careers.
Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 5
The Jerwood/Photoworks Awards offer the awardees the opportunity to make ambitious new work and significantly develop their practice at a pivotal moment in their career.
tactileBosch Archive Takeover
tactileBOSCH invites you to slip a fist inside the velvet glove of their archive.
Feminist Library: Feminist Collage Workshop
Come and celebrate female empowerment and expression with Sarah Merton, through the art of analogue cutting and sticking! Part of Roath Gallery Weekend Spring 2026.
Feminist Library: Being Between - Trans Gathering & Photo Walk
Join Rio Creech-Nowagiel and Kieran Cudlip for an exhibition, discussion, writing session, and guided photo walk. A space for shared reflection and creative response. Open to trans and non-binary people.
Jack Moyse: A Sorry State
The welfare state is failing with changes plaguing those reliant on it. Through photography, installation, sculpture and performance, produced in collaboration with individuals who have lived experience, populist rhetorics are visualised as new lateral ideas for socially progressive systems are examined.
Photo Book Fair 2026
Our annual Photo Book Fair is a celebration of the printed medium, and the ways in which artists and photographers communicate through print.
Durre Shahwar: One of the good ones (Publication launch)
Join writer, researcher, and artist Durre Shahwar for the launch of her new publication, ‘One of The Good Ones’ on Thursday 23rd April, 18:00-20:00pm.
Durre will be in conversation with artist Freya Dooley.
Fragmenting the Sky: Cyanotype, Trace and Reconstruction; a cyanotype workshop with Cristina Castro
Cyanotype workshop with Cristina Castro: 23rd April, 2026 - 12.00-16.00PM
Wales & Brazil open call exhibition at Lovely House, São Paulo
We are delighted to announce the artists and projects selected for the exhibition, There’s More to Life – Photobook Exchange between Wales and Brazil, which will take place at Lovely House, in São Paulo (BRAZIL), from April 11 - 18, 2026.
Artist Talk: Sebastián Bruno
We’re thrilled to host an informal online artist talk and Q&A with exhibiting artist, Sebastián Bruno. Join us for this sharing of his work and practice, including remarks on the landmark touring exhibition, TA-RA, which concludes at Ffotogallery.
Ffotogallery 1-2-1’s
Ffotogallery 1-2-1’s are informal advice sessions to help emerging artists and photographers outside of full time education with their practice and careers.
St. David's Day Feminist library special: Dr Estéfani Bouza Arnoso
Join us on 05th March 2026 at 12.30PM for Ffotogallery’s St David’s Day Feminist Library special, featuring Dr Estéfani Bouza Arnoso.
St. David's Day Feminist Library special: Polaroid lift workshop with Lucy Beckett
Join us on 27th February 2026 at 12.00pm at Clwb Ffoto in Newport for Ffotogallery’s St David’s Day Feminist Library special: Polaroid Lift workshop with artist Lucy Beckett
St David’s Day Feminist Library Special with Kaylee Francis in-conversation with Zoe Murphy
Join us for a St. David’s Day Feminist Library special with Swansea based artists Kaylee Francis in-conversation with Zoe Murphy at Elysium Gallery & Bar, Swansea.
Nation of Photographers
This year to celebrate St. Davids Day, we are sharing the work of the brilliant women and non-binary artists and photographers from or living in Wales today through street galleries via billboards across Swansea, Newport and Cardiff. Launched as part of Ffoto Cymru 2026.
Sebastián Bruno: TA-RA
This project explores the place Bruno called home from 2013 to 2022, focusing on the everyday moments and intimate routines of the people of South Wales - details that especially stood out to him as a foreigner.
Feminist Library with Dr Assunta Ruocco
Join us on Wednesday 11th February for our feminist Library session with Dr Assunta Ruocco
Ffotogallery 1-2-1’s
Ffotogallery 1-2-1’s are informal advice sessions to help emerging artists and photographers outside of full time education with their practice and careers.
HOLD AGE // WORKSHOP
Join Rhys Slade-Jones as they upend the Valleys Project archive at Ffotogallery through a queer performance practice workshop.
Durre Shahwar: One of the Good Ones
In One of the Good Ones, she presents a series of images that respond to Ffotogallery’s archive and reflect on how place, documentation, and symbolism take on different meanings under the threat of erasure and the impact of seeking asylum.
Feminist Library: Nelly Ating
Join us on Wednesday 10th December for our feminist Library session with Nelly Ating
Siria Ferrer: Pink Portraits 2025
Joining up with our friends at Iris Prize, we’re thrilled to host a drinks reception to celebrate our projects over the last year for a pop-up exhibition of Siria Ferrer’s iconic commission.
Ffotogallery 1-2-1’s
Ffotogallery 1-2-1’s are informal advice sessions to help emerging artists and photographers outside of full time education with their practice and careers.
Roath Gallery Weekend
The associated galleries of EAST are delighted to announce the next edition of the Roath Gallery Weekend (RGW) - the winter edition.
Ffotogallery will be hosting a late night opening 5pm - 7pm on Friday 28 November with festive drinks and a last chance to see Rhys Slade-Jones: Cwm Here Now as well as our main gallery exhibition, After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989-2024.
The RGW, which runs 28 - 30 November, will see a varied, vibrant and seasonal programme - with late night openings and special events scheduled throughout the weekend. The galleries have coordinated events to complement their current exhibition, which range from sculpture, photography, painting and craft. The Friday will also see many venues staying open later than usual, perfect for an evening of gallery-hopping.
The Friday evening sees a a craft sale and warm chai to be had at PAM as well as the launch of Celf Gallery’s Winter exhibition - a mixed show of art of many mediums by the gallery's artists. On the Saturday, there is a day full of events for all ages and whatever your taste - start at PAM with a textile workshop before heading to g39 to join the last 'Neighbourhood Crowd' of the year. Immerse yourself in Ffotogallery’s photography exhibition and then on to meet some of the Albany Gallery artists who are on show as part of its annual Winter exhibition. At TEN, there is an afternoon in the company of the artist John Abell, the painter of their latest exhibition; at Oriel Makers the festive feel continues with the craft of excellent makers on display, and close the day in style at Cardiff M.A.D.E. as they celebrate the launch of their Winter Open exhibition. On Sunday, there will be live jazz music at Celf Gallery, and as the evening draws in, take part in a Christmas wreath making workshop at Cardiff M.A.D.E.
It is a pleasure to announce that the chosen charity of the weekend is the national charity PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide. The funds raised over the course of the weekend will helps PAPYRUS to run a confidential helpline service, HOPELINE247, which offers practical advice and support to young people who are struggling with life and anyone who is concerned about a young person who may be having thoughts of suicide. We look forward to actively supporting a charity with newfound significance to us as a collective of galleries.
This is the fourth collaborative event from the EAST galleries - following the success of the inaugural weekend held in May 2024. What a way to reflect the active, creative and inclusive identity of Roath and what a great excuse to spend a culture-filled weekend!
For the full programme of events follow @__________EAST on Instagram or pop in to any of the 8 participation galleries to pick up a hard-copy programme
Feminist Library: Chrisyl Wong-Hang-Sun
The Feminist Library is a space to listen, discuss and share ideas.
We would like to thank the Paul Mellon Centre , whose generous funding has enabled us to continue these sessions.
These events are open to the public, free to attend and will be hosted monthly from July 2025 - January 2026
Chrisyl Wong-Hang-Sun is a PhD researcher in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh (UoE), researching coconut plantations in the dependent islands of Mauritius, with support from an AHRC scholarship from the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities. She is also a fellow of the Stuart Hall Foundation.
Her research interests include plantation labour, human/nonhuman relations, multispecies and poetic research methods, and the ethnography of the Republic of Mauritius and its dependent islands. As a budding writer, Chrisyl's work appears in the edited volume, 'Challenges and Prospects for the Chagos Archipelago’, The Dawntreader, and the Journal of Museum Ethnography.
About the session:
Chrisyl will present a talk on how she has used and will continue to use poetry and poetic research methods to supplement her ethnographic research and writing. Drawing on the work of feminist anthropologist Ruth Behar and Lila Abu-Lughod, intersectional feminist writer and poet Audre Lorde, and historian Saidiya Hartman, Chrisyl will examine knowledge cultivation through the interplay of research, imagination, and emotions. After the talk, Chrisyl will lead a workshop on ethnographic note -taking and sensual and embodied ethnography, encouraging guests to begin creative writing with these approaches.
This event is free to attend, please book here to reserve your place.
GLAZ Festival: Ada Marino and Kaylee Francis
Ffotogallery are thrilled to announce we will be presenting the work of Ada Marino and Kaylee Francis at GLAZ Festival, Rennes, in France this November.
Mark Griffiths: Hollow Mountain
Hollow Mountain, by Mark Griffiths follows the lives of several people impacted by the expansion of the Craig Yr Hesg quarry, near the Glyncoch housing estate in Pontypridd.
Ffotogallery 1-2-1’s
Ffotogallery 1-2-1’s are informal advice sessions to help emerging artists and photographers outside of full time education with their practice and careers.
Photo Book Fair
Ffotogallery's photobook fair returns on Saturday 25th October! This year, we are thrilled to announce that Mohamed Hassan will be launching his book, 'Our hidden room'. There will also be a wonderful selection of stallholders present on the day to buy from first hand.
More announcements soon.
Feminist Library: Marianne Mulvey & Grace Gelder
The Feminist Library is back! Supported by the Paul Mellon Centre, this project invites leading academics, writers and artists to explore public understanding of and deeper engagement with photography and its value to society.
Libraries can be intimidating when we don't quite know what we are looking for; Marianne Mulvey and Grace Gelder invite you to cruise Ffotogallery's Feminist Photography Library as a way of finding kinship, community and sustenance for your own work.
Rhys Slade-Jones: Cwm Here Now
Cwm Here Now is a disruption and gathering of fragmented histories, both material and imagined. Rhys invites you to familiar terrains, to question familial bonds and to reframe, and readdress the histories and hypocrisies laid in The Valleys.
Ffotogallery 1-2-1's October // *BOOKING REQUIRED*
Looking for support or advice on your creative practice? Do you have a practical question we might be able to help with? Or do you need a bit of direction on what to do next? Book in a 1-2-1 with the Ffotogallery team.
Feminist Library: Guest speakers - Eleanor Whiteman & Klara Sroka
As a special event in our Feminist Library series, Eleanor Whiteman & Klara Sroka present ‘Know Your Place’.
At the beginning of the 19th century, Cyfarthfa Ironworks, owned by the Crawshay family was the largest in the world, and this year we are celebrating the bicentennial of the Crawshay’s home, Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery. ‘Know Your Place’, is a new art exhibition which has been developed to not only showcase this milestone, but to continue the vital discourse of nurturing contemporary Welsh Portraiture practice.
After the End of History : British Working Class Photography 1989 – 2024
This Hayward Gallery touring exhibition, curated by Johny Pitts, emphasises the perspectives of practitioners who turn their gaze towards both their communities and outwards to the wider world, celebrating contemporary working class life, championing its diversity and beauty, whilst challenging perceptions of it.
Ffotogallery 1-2-1's September // *BOOKING REQUIRED*
Looking for support or advice on your creative practice? Do you have a practical question we might be able to help with? Or do you need a bit of direction on what to do next? Book in a 1-2-1 with the Ffotogallery team.
Mark Griffiths: An Incremental Demise
An Incremental Demise examines the choices we face about land use today - presented through personal stories, scientific evidence, and a hopeful protest for our future.