Photography festival focuses on revolution

A photography festival featuring more than 60 artists from across the world has descended on Cardiff for a programme of events all this month.

The Diffusion: Cardiff International Festival of Photography is spread across 20 venues.

Diffusion director David Drake said: “Diffusion 2017 looks at ‘revolution’, investigating moments of social change, movements around freedom of expression, the pursuit of utopias, human rights and identity.

“With the new global political context, I feel the theme is especially relevant today.

“I am interested in how photography, and art more generally, can offer a potentially transformative vision for society.”

One exhibition, State of the Nations, was commissioned for the festival and uses news images and everyday materials. It’s a collaboration between Peter Kennard and Cat Phillipps, discussing issues from Trump to nuclear proliferation.

In another exhibition photographer Walter Waygood and artist Hilary Powell document the demise of South Wales’ heavy industries.

Eight vending machines around the city will sell limited edition packages containing miniature artworks and other gifts.

Venues include the National Museum Wales, the Wales Millennium Centre and pop-up sites at St Davids House and the former Post Office on Merchant Place, Cardiff Bay.

Diffusion also features a free workshop held by an illustrator for The New York Times at the Tramshed Tech on May 27.