Photojournalist's work comes home to Wales
An exhibition of work by a world-renowned photographer is to go on display in his home village in Denbighshire, north Wales for the first time.
Philip Jones Griffiths, who died of cancer in 2008, was best known for his war images in Vietnam - where his ashes are being scattered this week. He developed his skills in Britain in the 1950s and 60s, and those images are shown in the Recollections exhibition. The exhibition will be on display at Rhuddlan Library until 8 May.
It includes a picture of young children captured in a street in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, in 1952, a Merthyr Tydfil miner in 1993, and Beatle John Lennon in 1963.
Described as "one of the greatest and most influential photographers of the late twentieth century", Mr Jones Griffiths was born in Rhuddlan in 1936. He left Wales aged 16, but said his upbringing as a Welshman was the basis for everything he did.
He launched his career as a freelance photographer for the Observer newspaper in 1961, covering the Algerian war in 1962 before travelling across central Africa. In a career that took him to more than 120 countries, Mr Jones Griffiths covered everything from Buddhism in Cambodia, drought in India, poverty in Texas and the legacy of the Gulf war in Kuwait. His work in Vietnam was collated into a book, published in 1971, which became crucial in challenging attitudes to the war in the United States.
Mr Jones Griffiths was also president of the famous Magnum picture agency for five years.
Mr Jones Griffiths was 72 when he died at his London home following a battle with cancer in 2008.