Diffusion Festival of Photography: Cardiff International Festival of Photography – May-June 2013

On a very wet day, I visited Penarth and Cardiff to visit some of the exhibitions open as part of the Diffusion Festival. I could have stayed all day at the Turner House Gallery in Penarth! It was pouring with rain outside, but it was mainly because of the work in Edgar Martins wonderful photographic show –  ” The Time Machine. ”  Not to be missed if you like this sort of thing – which I very definitely do!

The Tramshed, Cardiff: Diffusion Festival - May 2013

The Tramshed, Cardiff: Diffusion Festival – May 2013

Cardiff skyline from Third Floor Gallery: Diffusion Festival. Sebastian Liste's exhibition.

Cardiff skyline from Third Floor Gallery: Diffusion Festival. Sebastian Liste’s exhibition.

 

Photograph of one of Sebastian Liste's images; Urban Quilombo

Photograph of one of Sebastian Liste’s images; Urban Quilombo

 

Malaga: Muelle Uno

Muelle Uno, Malaga, 2012

Muelle Uno, Malaga, 2012

I have just realised that this time last year I was planning to be on my way to the Gnaoua Festival in Morocco in a couple of months. I stopped in Malaga, Spain for a few days en route, and enjoyed walking around the costly architectural games that had been played down by the old harbour. I wonder how many years it will be before this kind of adventure will be perceived as affordable again. It may be decades, and the experiments like this one, and  those in Valencia, for example, will possibly come to feel less ephemeral as they, hopefully, endure, and are not left behind as the next novelty captures the attention. 

Malaga, June 2012

Malaga, June 2012

Babcock & Wilcox : 10 Tons

Babcock & Wilcox: 10 tons

Babcock & Wilcox: 10 tons

This dependable bit of kit now presumably awaits recycling; this crane and gantry is gently rusting over a wharf on a stretch of the canal network near Wolverhampton. Babcock and Wilcox now seem to be making quite different bits of kit; re-inventing the company to fulfil demand for a new product.