To the streets! It’s been a busy couple of days for protest on the streets of Glasgow, Scotland, and across the UK. With a Union Unity demonstration on Friday, followed by hours on the streets yesterday to photograph an Enough is Enough demonstration, there’s been time to take in the mood of the people, and […]
With the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II I’ve thought back to the years I travelled through the Commonwealth, to all but a handful of the countries, as official photographer on the Queen’s Baton Relay for both the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games and also the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. During those trips I […]
It was an event we all knew was inevitably coming, as it does to us all one day, but one that my photographer colleagues and I had discussed from time to time and thought about for a while, “what will you do the week the Queen dies?” How would we go about photographing the Queen’s […]
My photography project ‘Unsullied & Untarnished, the Common Ridings and Festivals of the Scottish Borders’ will be exhibiting in UAE, in Sharjah emirate, from 9th-15th February 2023, at Xposure – the leading international photography festival. I’m delighted to be invited by the curator Simon Newtown and his team to exhibit photography work from Scotland, and […]
I was reminded yesterday evening of this below essay I’d written about running and freelance life, for my friend and colleague photographer Tom Broadbent’s Patreon site. In these tougher days in UK as we head into winter, we’re all going to need more mental fortitude. Here’s how I, as a Scotland-based freelance photographer working on […]
Many years ago, back in December 1993 I was fortunate enough to photograph former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev in Aberdeen, Scotland, as he came, accompanied by his wife Raisa, to be awarded the Keys To the City. Yesterday evening I was saddened to hear that he has passed away in Moscow aged 91-years. My photographic […]
Now is the winter of our discontent, or at least it is coming soon. In the past two weeks people have begun taking to the Glasgow streets, at rallies organised by Power the the People protest group, to voice their anger over the price rises for domestic energy bills. Two weeks ago outside the Scottish […]
The clock was ticking recently when I was on assignment for the Financial Times in Angus for a portrait session appointment with the Right Honourable Alister Jack, Secretary of State for Scotland, and Conservative Party Member of Parliament. Always nice to be asked to do such photography portrait shoots with people who are in the […]
The new exhibition from Document Scotland photography collective, including my Let Glasgow Flourish photographs of street protest in the city, has now opened at the Museum of European Cultures (MEK), in Berlin. Reflections on a Changing Country (German title: Ansichten aus einem Land im Wandel) will be on show until 20th November 2022. The exhibition […]