Photographer Carwyn Rhys Jones captures the men who spent their working lives in Welsh quarries.
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What sets them apart from traditional portraits is the use of double exposure, where the image is layered on top of another, which in this case are landscape images."When I started this project it was about the natural landscape," Mr Jones said, "and how industrialisation has changed that landscape."Carwyn Rhys Jones
"But now, every time I visit a quarry, it feels like you're walking through history, because you realise what these men achieved on a grand scale without the machinery or the health and safety [we have today]."Carwyn Rhys Jones's exhibition has gone on display in the Slate Valley Museum in Granville, New YorkTwo of the men have since died - something which Mr Jones said made the capture of their faces, and the stories within them, all the more important.
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