Heavy Seas of Love
Every journey has to have a first step. … More Heavy Seas of Love
Every journey has to have a first step. … More Heavy Seas of Love
Its hard to sit and write a blog entry and not address that it is my first in almost a year. Its part of the big story with 2015 alright, but I have a bigger announcement to make. I’m making a move. I have packed a bag and have packed away my life and for … More Swapping Horizons
Its almost too cliché to bear to say that I am always re-learning my relationship to photography. But it’s true. A year is enough time for the ground to shift significantly for me, but also for the medium. This blog is a good example. In the world of broadcasting images, even a well tended and … More 2014
The din of a festival rings in Edinburgh’s ears. 2014 roars by still. For the last three years I have watched the closing fireworks concert from the best seat in the house. Photographers are allowed into the gardens at Princes Street and work in front of the orchestra’s bandstand during the full display. A performance … More The Best Seat in the House
A Historic Scotland heritage plaque commemorating Norman McLaren is unveiled at his early home on Albert Road in Stirling. With the starter pistols cocked, and the games just about to begin it is easy to direct all attention to the sports arenas of the next two weeks. Apart form all the work that has gone … More 100 Years of Norman McLaren
Rock & Roll, they say, is all glamour. It’s a good thing that this is all lies and that The Phantom Band don’t exactly fall under the simplified banner of rock. Them, their music and even their name have never been simplified, so why should a photoshoot be straightforward? To coincide with the release of … More The Phantom Band
I’m a really happy man. Theology, a bold and charismatic new production by Martin O’Connor, has just ended its run as part of The Arches Behaviour Festival programme. Performed in The Pearce Institute, a stalwart heart of Govan, everything about the work resounded community. From recruiting a unique male choir of local vocals, to writing that … More Theology
Glasgow sprang out of hibernation a month early in February for the perless jamboree that is Glasgow Film Festival. With a programme of film, food and potholing it had no problem maintaining its notoriety for creative, vivid, unforgettable events. I was really lucky to join the team again this year and I had more excitement and … More Check-in! : Glasgow Film Festival
Now that my break in the tropics of Glasgow is finished, I have finally been processing my thoughts and encounters from such a long stint in my neighbour paradise city. Co-incidentally, I worked on the NTS production Rantin at the same time. I say coincidence because Rantin is a theatre piece that is preoccupied with … More Rantin
I am almost at the end of my current three week residency with Team Effort! in Glasgow’s southside. A residency is an exciting thing. It is business as usual really, but with a hard focus, and a hard deadline. Two things I sorely crave when I can focus on personal work. I have taken these 3 … More Artist Residence – Aloha Glasgow