Cardiff will be hosting the Diffusion Festival across the city and the month-long programme of exhibitions and events has also The Diffusion:Cardiff International Festival of Photography, featuring a theme of revolution, spread across 20 venues. Diffusion Festival features over 60 artists from across the globe. Over 26 exhibitions will be featuring work at the festival which runs from 1st May to 31st May.
State of the Nations is one exhibition specially commissioned for the festival. The work, a collaboration between Cat Phillipps and Peter Kennard, tackles current issues using news and images of everyday materials, discussing from nuclear proliferation to Trump. Another one has artist Hilary Powell and photographer Walter Waygood document the demise of heavy industries and coal mines in South Wales.
The festival in Cardiff has shows at several venues, from the Wales Millennium Centre and National Museum Wales, to prop-up sites at the former Merchant Place Post Office and St.Davids House. The Diffusion also offers many events, including a free workshop teaching people to design gig posters and flyers, by an illustrator for Vice magazine and the New York Times. It will be held on 29th May at Transhed Tech. The festival is mainly organised by Ffotogallery and is supported by the Weslsh government, the Arts Council of Wales and various partners.
