The Dynamic is a project by Argentine photographer Sebastián Bruno made in the working-men's social clubs of the South Wales Valleys—venues born from coalfield communities that, in the years since the closure of the mines, have persisted as the social heart of small post-industrial towns. The book takes its title from one specific club, The Dynamic in Tonypandy, and uses it as an emblem for a wider network of similar venues: the function room with its raked stage, the smoking entrance, the loyal members card, the meat raffle, the line dancers, the karaoke night, the brass-band rehearsal, the bingo caller. Bruno, who came to the Valleys as an outsider via the documentary photography programme at Newport, builds a slow, sympathetic portrait of the clubs and the people who keep them alive—often older members in committee or behind the bar—and asks what these spaces hold together in a period when the wider economy has withdrawn its supports. The work was made over several years and is the product of long, returning visits.