The Client:

In 2025 and 2026 the Open University REACH project identified 5 areas across Wales and worked with a variety of creative practitioners to organise creative workshops to generate a range of artworks.

We got involved because:

Initially the Open University hired Rhys from Webber Photo (part of Webber Design) to work with two of the REACH chosen communities - Sandfields in Port Talbot and Bute Town in Cardiff.

Rhys made several visits to Ysbryd Y Môr residential home in Sandfields, Port Talbot to shoot photographic portraits of residents. These portraits (plus personal histories) formed the core of the 'Atgofion' book, designed by Webber Design.

We were later commissioned to work with the Bute Town community, photographing the 'Amarah girls group Taste the World project' where local girls of Somali and Ethiopian heritage were learning to cook foods of the world. We also shot portraits of the girls and staff. These images made up the core of the 'Amarah: Taste the World' book, designed by Webber Design.

After completion of this work we were invited to pitch for the the REACH digital exhibition website - to accompany the (meatspace) exhibition at St Ffagan, Cardiff... and we won!