Paul Cabuts’s photography and writing can be considered as a mapping of his experience of place at the intersections of history, memory and imagination.
His earlier work, made in the former industrial heartland of Wales, had been motivated by the differences between his personal experiences of living and working in the south Wales Valleys and the ways in which the region had been represented in photography and other media.
His ongoing work in west Wales extends earlier themes to engage with the uncanny and transcendental elements that emanate from a land of deep histories, ancient legends and innate spirituality.
He was awarded a PhD at the European Centre for Photographic Research and completed an MA in Fine Art at Aberystwyth University and a BA (Hons) Documentary Photography at the Newport School of Art & Design. His monograph Creative Photography and Wales explored the development of photography in Wales during the second half of the twentieth century. It was published by the University of Wales Press in 2012.
He was the Director of the Institute of Photography at Falmouth University and the Academic Leader for Photography at the Newport School of Art, Design and Media. He is a former Honorary Research Fellow at Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales.