Ffion Lloyd-Jones’ series Steeling Port Talbot is a documentary project around a steel works that is obscured within the landscape. Port Talbot, a town in South Wales, was built during the development of the Steel Works, and without it the town wouldn’t exist today. Providing over 4,000 jobs, the works play a huge role in the lives of the people that live within the town today. This series makes visible how the Steel Works have come to form such an integral part of the town’s landscape, which quickly gets overlooked and forgotten. The Steel Works have now become a foundational part of the community, as without them there would be high unemployment in the town. These images demonstrate both their visibility and their seeming invisibility within daily life and surroundings.
