ISSUE #006 / APRIL 2021
WILD SKIES
Offline Journal #006
WILD SKIES
Cover image by Mohamed Hassan
Contemporary Landscape issue
Offline Journal’s biggest issue to date. 36 pages on contemporary landscape photography in Wales - rural & urban
To live in Wales is to be conscious
At dusk of the spilled blood
That went into the making of the wild sky,
Dyeing the immaculate rivers
In all their courses.
Opening of ‘A Welsh Landscape’ by R.S. Thomas
Contributors
Ellie Hopkins Ed Brydon Pete Davis Jos Treen Abby Poulson Hazel Simcox Adrian Cann
Mohamed Hassan James Milne Neil Mansfield David Mayne Rob Hudson
Al Brydon Stephen Segasby Joseph Wright David Hurn Martin Parr Foundation
Kristina Banholzer Rhodri Jones Roger Tiley Glenn Edwards
#006 Contents:
Introduction
Ed Brydon
ARTICHOKES (and other arty plant forms) / photobook review
Brian Carroll digests two of the four new books created by photographer Pete Davis during lockdown.
A Pilgrim’s Landing Ground
Jos Treen reflects on time well spent during lockdown as he prepares to start his new project on the Llŷn Peninsula.
Pausing the Landscape
Hazel Simcox talks with photographer new talent Abby Poulson.
Benchmarks
Fresh landscape views from an island by Adrian Cann rekindle his passion for photography.
Witnessing Wales
The story behind new Welsh landscape work being created by Egyptian-born Mohamed Hassan.
Polaroids
Artist James Milne on steadily building his portfolio of photographs and drawings of post-industrial structures and sites in South Wales.
THE RIVER
Neil Mansfield is spending slow, quality time on his own doorstep landscape for a personal project.
YMA / HERE / photobook review
Urban photography that gave new meaning to street photography and deserved a (big) book.
Putting Roaming to Rights
Landscape Collective Inside the Outside discuss their recent Open Submission call and the resulting new publication .
NEWS
Progredior / Advance
New Collective, Doc Cymru, set out their common goals in documentary photography to record the impact of Brexit across Wales.
A4 format • 36 pages • 150 copies printed
Cover by Mohamed Hassan