Eternal Rivals
Rome may be the Eternal City, but here in Glasgow, Scotland we have a City of Eternal Rivals. A city of football and the rivalry between the ‘Old Firm’ teams of Celtic FC and Rangers FC. Green against...
View ArticleDocument Scotland on Picture Power
It’s always been said that the members of Document Scotland have a great face for radio, so we took everyone at their word… We’re very pleased to announce that today you’ll be able to hear our dulcet...
View ArticleWeathered wall
A particularly weathered wall from Paisley, near Glasgow, Scotland!! A particularly weathered wall in #Paisley, #Scotland. It's the first time I've been in Paisley in many years, & was saddened to...
View Article#BackClimateAction photography competition.
Recently I’ve been contributing to the Everyday Climate Change (ECC) group feed on Instagram, as I’ve previously mentioned. Initiated by Tokyo-based photographer, my friend and colleague James Whitlow...
View ArticleMark Beaumont’s Africa Solo
Last year I had the pleasure of trotting through the Commonwealth with Mark Beaumont, Scottish cyclist, adventurer, television presenter and endurance athlete. I had to run to keep up. But none the...
View ArticleA book fit for a Queen.
A week or so ago I had popped into a local Glasgow printing house, to check out some photography book publishing ideas with them, and came away with a nice little surprise! As I sat down to talk with...
View ArticleArchiving Community Storytelling: Challenges and Opportunities
A week or so ago I attended a seminar hosted by Digital Commonwealth at the University of the West of Scotland, in Paisley, near Glasgow. The seminar, a one day event, was on the topic of Archiving...
View ArticlePosters.
Some recent photography from a commission on behalf of Macmillan Cancer Support, showcasing their facilities here in Glasgow, Scotland, and further afield, for clients of their services. The assignment...
View ArticlePhotographing Fukushima
This Saturday, 8th August, Japanese award winning photographer Takashi Arai will be talking at Street Level Photoworks, in Glasgow, about his work and experiences photographing the aftermath of the...
View ArticleFukushima and Photography.
Last month I had the pleasure of sitting down, at Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, with Japanese photographer and daguerreotypist Takashi Arai to discuss photography and the Fukushima nuclear incident...
View ArticleNelson Mandela in Glasgow – book.
I’m very pleased to let you know that the black and white images I took of Nelson Mandela, in Glasgow in 1993, when he came to here to receive the Freedom of the City (and which I’ve written about...
View ArticleHello Paul Smith
All photographers have lists – lists of places they wish to travel and photograph, festivals or events they’d like to witness and photograph, places in their home town they want to record or document,...
View ArticleClyde Built – Shipbuilding on the River Clyde
I’m pleased to announce that some of my archive work, of shipbuilding on Glasgow’s River Clyde in the 1990’s, has been published as a small book, and is due to be exhibited over the summer here in...
View ArticleA Window On Glasgow
I’m pleased to announce that 4 photographs of mine will be on display in the Consul’Art, in Marseille, France, in the coming weeks, as part of the Street Level Photoworks exhibition ‘A Window On...
View ArticleShipbuilding, Glasgow – Limited Edition prints offer.
During the ‘Govan / Gdansk’ exhibition at Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, which includes a large series of my images form the Kvaerner shipyard in Govan in the 1990’s, I’m pleased to offer two...
View ArticleNil Desperandum
It’s been a busy past 12 months, with a photography assignment which took me to 40 countries of the Commonwealth, following the Queen’s Baton Relay for the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. Bit of a...
View ArticleBellahouston Harriers – Nil Desperandum
Over the past year or two as I’ve ran for pleasure with the Glasgow-based Bellahouston Harriers club, I’ve been photographing the running club meets, the training, some portraits, made a little movie...
View Article@EverydayClimateChange exhibitions.
Lots of good news regarding the @EverydayClimateChange Instagram photography group of which I’m a contributing member, and which was founded by Tokyo-based photographer James Whitlow Delano. We’ve...
View ArticleNelson Mandela in Glasgow
My images, shot in 1993, of Nelson Mandela in Glasgow receiving the Freedom of the City, are about to go on show at the Glasgow City Chambers, from 26th September through to the 1st of November. The...
View Article@EverydayClimateChange
An exhibition of work from the @EverydayClimateChange Instagram feed is currently on show at Glasgow’s Trongate 103 Arts centre, next to Street Level Photoworks in the city. As well as being a...
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