Insiders' perspectives and outsiders' art

Photography features heavily - pleasingly if not entirely surprisingly so - in the National Museum Cardiff's superb current exhibition The Valleys.

At a stimulating recent panel discussion, representatives from Ffotogallery and photographers Paul Cabuts and David Barnes, whose work features on the walls, talked about the past, present and indeed future of photography in and of the area, while curator Bronwen Colquhoun gave some insights into the decision-making processes behind the staging.

Buzz report here.