Riverside: A Tale of Two Cities

The River Taff in Cardiff, Wales, runs between two banks that used to be one story.

On one side stood a brewery; part of the city's working memory for longer than most of the people living near it now have been alive. What's there instead is newer, taller, and already being sold as a lifestyle. That's a thread this series will pull on, but not yet.

For now, this starts on the other bank.

Ribwort and timothy grass gone to seed on the embankment, shot close enough that nothing else is in focus. Two of the four frames here were taken a hundred and eighty degrees apart, same spot, same morning. Geese raise goslings on this side. Insects work flowers nobody planted, on a verge nobody's paid to manage.

The series will build slowly. More pairs from both banks. Seren's archival work on the area's older history. New Cardiff poems from Awen Null, added as the body of work grows. It lives across AOF and Pixelfed.

[Feature photograph: Tai Afon monolith towering over the sad remains of the iconic Brains Brewery building] Photo: Lloyd Lewis ©2026 Art of FACELESS

Photography on AOF and Pixelfed by Lloyd Lewis ©2026 Art of FACELESS

Collection Number One

Camera: Panasonic Lumix Micro Four Thirds GX800

Lens: Panasonic Lumix G Macro 30mm Lens f2.8

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