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Foreword by John Humphrys. Text by Melanie Doel, Chris Townsend.
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In 2006, artist Shimon Attie was invited to come from New York to the Welsh village of Aberfan.The village became known the world over in 1966 when a coal waste tip slid down a mountainside and buried the village's only primary school. As a result nearly an entire generation of the village's children, as well as many adults, lost their lives.Forty years later, the village invited Shimon Attie to create a work of contemporary art with them. Together they aimed to produce a response to and for the world, to make a final statement to the public, authored and owned by the village itself. The artwork is a five-channel video installation and a body of still photographs which are represented in this monograph. This book presents Shimon's photographic portraits of the villagers, along with a selection of images that represent the multi-channel video installation. It also includes a number of essays and poems, as well as a DVD.
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