The Argentine photographer spent more than a decade living in Wales and capturing community life there, including one bride’s big dayIsolate the three figures in the middle of this photograph by Sebastián Bruno and it could be the centre spread of a wedding magazine: the bride in a tiara clutching an effusion of white flowers, her veil extending out of shot; the two glamorous bridesmaids next to her in high heels, one resting a supportive hand on the bride’s left shoulder. But then restore the context – the modest front gardens, the satellite dishes and telephone wires – and we’re in a housing estate in Cardiff in summer 2020 under a glowering grey sky. To the side a flower girl, finger in mouth, fixes the photographer (whose shadow we glimpse at the bottom alongside that of his flash) with an interrogative scowl.Bruno had been living in Wales for a decade at this point but he shoots the scene – and others in his wonderful series Ta-ra – with an outsider’s eye, picking out heightene...
Argentine photographer Sebastián Bruno, living in Wales, captured a Traveller wedding in Cardiff in 2020, focusing on everyday moments with an "outsider's eye." He photographed the bride and bridesmaids in a housing estate, capturing a heightened moment amidst the everyday. Bruno's work, including the "Ta-ra" series and "The Dynamicis," reflects his observations of community life in Wales.
