"The war is over; the heroic French population reasserts its superiority. Love, Paris and flowers, but London was black, white and grey: elegance and style, all present against the ever-changing fog. Then I met a man from Wales who talked about the miners, and I had read How Green Was My Valley. This became my only attempt at making a 'story'." Robert Frank
 
London/Wales brings together two distinct bodies of work to offer a new understanding of Frank's contribution to photographic history. Juxtaposing the world of money and the world of labour in postwar Britain, Frank photographed London's bankers, workers and children, and Welsh coal miners and their families. These images poetically evoke class relationships during a period of change in Britain. An important documentary precursor to Frank's best-known work, The Americans, London/Wales demonstrates his early interest in social commentary, the narrative potential of photographic sequencing and his innovative use of the medium's expressionist qualities. Through 90 black-and-white photographs, it tells a timeless story of cities, people and institutions in transition, with moving, evocative images that reveal Frank's struggle to forge a new form of poetic photographic narrative.