When the renown Swedish film director Kjell-Ake Andersson was a young man, he visited South Wales in 1973 on a photographic expedition. Travelling on a shoestring, with his girlfriend and eight-month-old daughter Matilda he was taken in a miner’s home in Bargoed. They stayed together in the village for three months, meeting and talking and taking photographs. returning twice in the following year. Widely accepted by the miners and their families, his photographs portrayed their lives in intimate detail. His book, Gruvarbetare in Wales, was published in Sweden in 1977 with an accompanying Swedish text by Mikael Wistrom, While unknown to many, this has become recognised as one of the most p...