About Tilt & Shift

Tilt and Shift is a photographer’s workshop and studio owned and run by Eleri Griffiths & Dave Paddy. The two met in a darkroom over thirty years ago, and the rest, as they say, is history. While both have pursued varied and separate careers in photography and education since this initial meeting all those years ago, their passion for photography has endured. Tilt and Shift Photography opened as a workshop, studio and gallery space in Llanrwst in June 2013. During this time, they hosed exhibitions by emerging and established photographers, bringing contemporary photography to the community. Due to the sale of the original building that housed the gallery, the pair have relocated to Dolgarrog, where the studio has become a new home for the pair's creative endeavours.  

About Eleri

Eleri currently works as a freelance photographer with a supporting fine art practice. She has worked for a growing list of corporate and private clients, including - Random House Publishing, Discovery, Curve Media, The Sunday Times, Drew Pritchard Antiques, Metro, Samantha Rudd Fabrics, Style at Home, Ideal Homes, & 25 Beautiful Homes for IPC Media.

 Eleri's work has been included in The British Journal of Photography’s Portrait of Britain Publication Volume 5. She has also participated in the #209 Women Photography Exhibition celebrating 100 years of women having the vote; the exhibition took place in the House of Commons in December 2018. and Liverpool Eye Gallery 2019. Her work was also seen at Little Man Coffee in Cardiff as part of Ffoton Wales's inaugural exhibition and was selected for The Royal Photographic Soc’s 157th Print Exhibition. Eleri also received the 2013 Royal Photographic Societies/Guardian Joan Wakelin Bursary, funding her to travel to Cameroon in West Africa to document women beekeepers in rural communities. Eleri's work has also been short-listed in the 2013 Sony World Photography Organisation competition. Other recent exhibitions and awards include The Royal Photographic Society Biennale and Jurors Award of Merit for the 2012 International Fine Art Competition. In her graduating year, Eleri was in the Welsh Livery Guild Award for Photography and was selected to exhibit at the Tom Blau Gallery in London.

Eleri also runs photographic workshops in both digital and traditional photographic processes and is a visiting lecturer on the photographic degree course at Chester University. To find out more and to view her extensive portfolio, you can visit her website at elerigriffiths.com

About Paddy

David Paddy, or Paddy as he prefers to be known, began his working life at Aerospace in Broughton near Chester, after graduating as an aeronautical engineer, Paddy decided to return to full time education and enrolled at the University of Derby to study for a B.A. Hons. in Photography under the tutelage of such leading photographers as John Blakemore, Richard Sadler and Olivier Richon.

After leaving Derby, Paddy went on to become a Lecturer in Photography, Graphics and New Media at Yale College in Wrexham, one of the leading FE colleges in the country. During this time his work was exhibited both nationally and internationally and he continued to work as a freelance photographer and designer.

Fifteen years later, after guiding many students through their course work and on to higher education and  promising careers in the arts, Paddy took a leap of faith and left to concentrate on his own photography and fine art practice. Visit his personal website at: www.davepaddyphotography.com

Together

While maintaining their own distinct portfolios, Eleri and Paddy have collaborated on a number of works including The Assembly Project in which all 60 members of the Welsh Assembly Government were photographed in their constituencies at a location of their choosing. This work was exhibited at Clwyd Theatre Cymru's Community Gallery in 2009 and the Pier Head Building Cardiff Bay in 2010. Other Projects include the Appleby Fair 2011 and of course Tilt & Shift.