Wales 49 1953

Robert Frank created "Wales 49" with his camera, and it shows us a series of moments captured on film. I wonder what it was like for Frank, walking around Wales, seeing these scenes and deciding which ones to frame, and in what order. You see the red marker on the film strip, scrawled over the images? Maybe that’s Frank saying, "This is important, this is worth looking at." Or maybe it's just a way of keeping track. Either way, it feels so intimate, like we're looking at his notes. I think about the relationships between these frames, how they speak to each other. It's like Frank is having a visual conversation, and we're invited to listen in. It’s like looking through someone else’s sketchbook, seeing their process, their mistakes, and their flashes of brilliance all at once. And that feels really special.