19th July, 2016

Aled Rhys Hughes talks to the BBC about what inspired his photography of Mametz Wood

Aled Rhys Hughes has been visiting Mametz Wood, the site of the most significant battle in World War I for Welsh troops, for over five years. The striking contemporary photographs Hughes has taken over this period have just been published in Mametz, to mark the centenary of the Battle of Mametz Wood.
What inspired Hughes to keep returning to this landscape? Hughes explores this question in two special radio broadcasts, on BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio Cymru, both available to listen to online.
‘Does a place retain some sort of memory of what’s happened there – over the years or over the centuries? It’s very clear to me that in Mametz Wood… there is a memory there of what’s happened a hundred years ago.’ – Aled Rhys Hughes
Listen in English to the Aled on the BBC Radio Wales Arts Show, or in Welsh to BBC Radio Cymru Stiwdio Gyda Nia Roberts.