SIGNATURES

joining the dots..

Published

Aug 19, 2025

Words

Brian Carroll

A photobook by David Morgan-Davies

Next in the series of Offline's SIGNATURES conversations on photobooks and photozines from and on Wales is a recent title by David Morgan-Davies.

'joining the dots..' by the Abergavenny-based artist-photographer presents thirty-nine photographs in his first self-published photobook. Created over two years during the Covid pandemic, the work documents a series of seven walks through the post-industrial landscape of Blaenafon.

Photographic walks from 'joining the dots..". © David Morgan-Davies

Opting to work with a 35mm SLR camera, each of the seven walks had him use a different roll of expired film, with the resulting photographs listed at the end of the book with the respective date, location and film stock used. All but one were colour film.

Accompanying Morgan-Davies' photographs is an insightful concluding essay by Frank Olding FSA, a former curator of Abergavenny Museum and Heritage Officer at Blaenau Gwent Council who, when describing the historically-rich area where the artist took his walks and captured these photographs, concludes...

"This awareness of long ages of human activity colours and informs David Morgan-Davies' response to the landscape which in turn inspires his work as artist and photographer".

You can listen to David and I discuss his book in the recording below...