Portraits at Sea

2018, 13 minutes

A short film documenting the interactions between artist Dan Llywelyn Hall and the Hull seafarers

Artist Dan Llywelyn Hall was invited by film-maker and photographer Ann-marie Conlon of Lucky Mask Productions to sit with men who helped to forge the seafaring industry in Hull, an east coast port located on the banks of the Humber estuary which was until recent times, Britain's largest fishing hub employing thousands of men and women throughout the city. Over several weekends Hall sat with the men and drew them whilst engaged in conversation as the participants relayed stories, anecdotes and facts, about their lives in the fishing industry, stories little known to the world outside their community. Ann-marie Conlon, a photographer and filmmaker whose photos famously captured the collapse of the Twin Towers, filmed Hall throughout the drawing process.

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