Cardiff-born Phil Cope is a photographer, writer, and exhibition and book designer. His stand alone books include a series of photographic books about wells: Holy Wells Cornwall; Borderlands; Holy Wells Scotland; and The Living Wells of Wales. Among his other publications are: Creating Meaning: a book about culture and Democracy; The Price of Coal: the Tynewydd Colliery Disaster, April 1877; four books on Haiti and vodou; two books about Liverpool, and The Dancing Pilgrimage of Water, a book on the rivers and lakes of Wales, with Dewi Roberts.