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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This past weekend I had a few moments in which to photograph a portrait of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. The shoot took place here in Glasgow, very locally which was nice. As much as I prefer photographing the ‘man/woman in the street’ who doesn’t usually get photographed, it is always nice to get a few […]
DAM. No, not swearing, but Digital Asset Management. Sounds boring huh, but quite the opposite I think. Yesterday evening I was given the welcome news that I’ve been shortlisted, as part of a team, for an award by the Digital Preservation Coalition, for ‘Safeguarding the Digital Legacy’. But let’s step back a bit… Many years […]
All the fun of the fair. The fair’s only being going for 266 years, but for some reason unbeknownst to me this is the very first time I’d been out on the first Friday evening in June to go and photograph the Govan Fair. The historic fair, which takes place on the southern banks of […]
‘Know your boxes” I was once told by a photographer, meaning know what you’re photographing and how it adds to what you’ve shot before, know what projects you have on the go and how it all fits together. So it was this weekend as I photographed Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee in Glasgow. Last week […]
I’m delighted to share the news that today Café Royal Books and I have collaborated again to bring out two zines featuring photographs fro my archive of Glasgow and Golden Jubilee. The two titles are ‘Glasgow 1990s‘, and ‘Queen’s Golden Jubilee, Scotland 2002‘. Both retail for £6.50 plus package and posting. The Glasgow 1990s images, […]
Photographing portraits in the streets of Springburn, Glasgow, listening to the views of the public ahead of local council elections.… Read more “Portraits from the Glasgow streets.”