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Dai Morris

18 October 2026

Aberfan: The pictures that show a village frozen by tragedy

After a coal waste slide killed 116 children and 28 adults in a Welsh colliery village in October 1966, US photographer Chuck Rapoport’s camera captured a community frozen by grief but trying to carry on

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