Thursday 5th June, 7pm
The Drill Hall, Chepstow
£3 (redeemable against the price of the book)
David Hurn and Richard King give an illustrated presentation of their new book "Wales As Is"
"Wales As Is", is a definitive portrait of the landscape of Wales. Collecting a lifetime of material from magnum photographer David Hurn, with accompanying text from Richard King, these images represent the interface between the landscape of Wales and human intervention in it. An important volume by two significant interpreters of the land and of contemporary Welsh society.
David Hurn has a longstanding international reputation as one of Britain's most influential reportage photographers. His prints are acquired by many leading collectors and museums. In 2016, David Hurn was awarded an honorary fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society.
Richard King was born into a bilingual family in South Wales and for the last twenty years has lived in the rural county of Powys, in mid-Wales. He is author of Original Rockers (2015), which was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, and How Soon Is Now? (2012), which was Sunday Times Music Book of the Year, both published by Faber. The Lark Ascending was published in 2019, and was a Rough Trade, Mojo and Evening Standard Book of the Year, shortlisted for the Penderyn Prize. Brittle With Relics: A History of Wales, 1962–1997 was published in February 2022. Richard is the current Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media & Culture.