Heb Eiriau / Without Words, The Photographs of Geoff Charles, was commissioned by the National Library of Wales and the National Eisteddfod of Wales. Working alongside Russell Roberts, we co- curated an exhibition on the work of Geoff Charles (1909 – 2002).

Charles was press photographer who photographed Wales throughout the 30’s until the 1970’s. With our shared interests in archives, national memory, history and cultural politics we wanted to explore alternative frames of reference for engaging with this vast collection of over 120,000 images. Without Words moves between prints, projections, film and newspaper formats, a gesture that speaks not only to the cultural possibilities of photographs but to the increasing fluidity of images brought into being through digital media.

Ultimately, Without Words, offers a fresh perspective by concentrating on the photographs themselves and re-presenting them not only as historical reference points, but as alternative translations involving new media, newspaper, film and projections.  It is an alternative celebration to make the richness and extent of the Geoff Charles archive better known and understood.

Our resulting research of his archive resulted in an exhibitions at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in Wrexham in 2011 and at the Diffusion International Festival of Photography organized by Ffotogallery in 2013.

This was  reviewed in Photo Monitor

> Film Water Knows No Frontiers, Tryweryn a Story of a Valley, 23 min, 2014. Film containing reworked images of Geoff Charles and film made by Fryers School in Bangor, documenting the drowning of the villages of Tryweryn and Capel Celyn in the 60’s.

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