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Photographer and former Guardian Picture Editor Eamonn McCabe discusses his new 3-part Photography series coming to BBC4 in early 2017.

The haunting Aberfan photographs by American photojournalist I.C. Rapoport (known as Chuck) were captured over a six week period when he came to Wales on 29th October 1966 to record a photo essay idea he had pitched to the prestigious LIFE Magazine in New York titled, "A Town without Children". Ffoton present this exclusive video of Chuck's digital exhibition launch at Redhouse in Merthyr Tydfil on the evening of 12th September 2016.

Ffoton's Brian Carroll talks with Welsh photographer Roger Tiley at his latest exhibition of work titled 'Coal Faces Changing Places' showing at The Kickplate Gallery in Abertillery during October 2016. It also marks the launch of a new book of the work with the same name.

Ffoton's Brian Carroll visits the IRIS Prize 2016 exhibition of work by South Wales artist and photographer Jon Pountney. The exhibition titles 'IRIS & Me' marks the 10th anniversary of the IRIS Film festival and Jon's Unit photography on location with films in production and the annual Festival. Recorded at the Park Inn Hotel on Thursday 13th October 2016.

The inaugural 2016 Award from the Philip Jones Griffiths Foundation is offering a £10,000 prize to a photographer of any age with a significant body of work in the genre of Documentary photography.

The deadline to apply is 10th October 2016 - so be quick!

More information on the Award, photographer and the Foundation can be found on the website www.philipjonesgriffiths.orgbut see below for a summary of submission criteria.

National Library of Wales Curator Will Troughton speaking with Ffoton's Emyr Young

Rondo Media TV Director Caryl Ebenezer talking to Ffoton's Brian Carroll

You can listen to our previous Ffoton News items where we speak with the curator of the 2015 Philip Jones Griffiths exhibition at the National Library of Wales; and our conversation with the Producer/Director of the S4C Documentary on the photographer.

Announced a few weeks back with our sixth #urbanwales ticket winner for The EYE International Photography Festival,Pixelrights have partnered with Ffoton to offer our followers and Podcast subscribers a massive 30% discount on all new Pixelrights online portfolio accounts - for the lifetime of the account!!

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If you're looking to refresh your photography website or create your very first online photography portfolio to promote your work, take a few moments (or 14 days with the free trial!) to explore the features offered by Pixelrights and compare them to other hosted website alternatives. We're sure you'll agree that the 30% discount (for the lifetime of your account) offers fantastic value for money,with the added benefit of leading-edge technology working behind the scenes to protect your image copyright.

We've provided some of the background to their new technology below, but have a look at this in-depth interview with Pixelrights executives on Shutterbug for more detail on the copyright security advances made by the company.

Pixel rights, based here in the UK,have created their new .PXLR image format for the benefit of the online photographic and creative community.The .PXLR image format improves the rendering of your images on screen and helps to protect your photos from accidental and intended theft, through the use of technology and notifying/educating visitors to your website.

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Our audio recording of photographer David Hurn giving his special talk his photography at the Aberfan Disaster at the National Museum Cardiff on 2nd September 2016.

We look at new books by photographer Roger Tiley and new Photobook publisher 2tenbooks

Just a week remains to post and tag your #urbanwales images for a chance to win the last of 6 free EYE Festival tickets. And we have a new fantastic prize for one of the 6 lucky ticket winners in the form of a FREE Pixelrights Prime account!

Ffoton speaks with 2 of the founders of new Landscape photography Collective 'Inside the Outside' - Rob Hudson and Al Brydon.