Rhisiart [pronounced Richard] is a Welsh photographer based in the Rhondda Valleys. With over ten years of experience—both professional and personal—he’s currently focusing on personal projects with aims to create his first monograph

Rhisiart is dedicated to his large-format project set in North Wales, which focuses on the slate landscape and the heritage railways.

He is also developing two other projects: one exploring his connection to Nepal, his wife’s homeland, and another called Where the Land Ends, documenting Cornwall, its fishing villages and tourism.

Though self-taught, photography has been a lifelong passion for Rhisiart. From creating short home movies on his father’s video camera and photographing his model train set as a child, to capturing scenes from Chernobyl to the Himalayas in Nepal, he now works primarily with a 4x5 film camera to document projects closely tied to identity and heritage.